an account of someone's life written by someone else 传记 ■[mass noun]writing of such a type as a branch of literature 传记文学 ■the course of a person's life 生平,人生历程 although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition. 尽管他们的人生道路各不相同,但他们的动力都来自相似的抱负。