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Telling Tales about People讲述关于人类的故事One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about peoples lives. 一个非小说类最常见的类型，一个许多人喜欢阅读，是对人的生命的故事。These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography.这些故事大致分为三类：自传，传记，传记。An autobiography is the story of a persons life written by himself or herself. 自传是作者记录自己故事的文章。Often it begins with the persons earliest recollections and ends in the present.通常自传会以作者最早期的回忆开始并以对现在情况的总结作为结束。Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the way they present themselves.自传的作者也许不会完全客观地介绍自己。 However, they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. 然而，他们给读者提供了一个途径来了解自己比较好的行事风格和为何成就这样的己。People as diverse as Benjarmin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 就像本杰明?富兰克林和海伦?凯勒一样，各种各样的人们已经写了自传。1Other writers, such as James Joyce，have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. 其他的作者就像詹姆斯?乔伊斯一样仅仅写了关于自己生活的虚构小说。These are not autobiographies，but they are very close to it.这些不是自传，但是它们和自传非常相近。Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. 严格意义上来讲，回忆录是既注重作者本身的生活经历，也注重其所处的时代所发生的事件的自传性的描述。2Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives. 回忆录作者通常把这些事件作为他们生活的背景。They describe them in detail and discuss their importance.他们详细地描述这些事件并论述这些事件的重要性。 Recently，though，the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeab1e with autobiography. 虽然近些年，回忆录这个词似乎开始变得可以和自传互换，A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world.但是目前回忆录也许还没有因外界评论而有所改变。Biographies are factual accounts of someone elses life. 传记事实上是记录（作者以外).其他人的生活。In many senses，these maybe the hardest of the three types to write. 在很多方面，传记也许是这三种非小说类文学作品中最难写的了。Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them. 自传作者知悉他们所写的事件因为他们就生活在其中。But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible.但是传记作者不得不尽