hagiography

英 [ˌhæɡi'ɒɡrəfi] 美 [ˌhæɡi'ɑːɡrəfi]

• n. 圣徒传；圣徒言行录

英英释义

Noun:

1. a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Much hagiography now clusters around Caesar's early years,to the extent that you would think he had been marked out by his contemporaries as a genius ever since the cradle.
   现在很多圣徒传都集中描述凯撒的早年生活，以至于你会觉得他自从出生就一直被他同时代的人推崇为天才。

经典引文

• Busch avoids hagiography as well as criticism.

  出自： J. Updike