" Option B" takes its name from an anecdote in which Ms Sandberg tells a friend that she does not want to take part in a parent-child activity without Goldberg; with option A not available, she has to choose the second-best option.

《后备选项》这个书名源自桑德伯格的一则轶事。她跟朋友说，丈夫不在身边，她并不想参加某个亲子活动。但没有了首选，她只能接受次优选项。

Come afternoon, I'll wax nostalgic about my humble beginnings as a junior executive, merrily sharing an anecdote that's both self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating.

午，我会还念一回顾我初入职场时的青涩，愉快地分享一则轶事既凸显雄心壮志，又充满自谦态。

Many Americans say that blondes have more fun, but her story is only an anecdote.

许多美国人认为金发女郎更快乐，但她的故事仅是一则轶事。

Osten began to relate a droll anecdote anent the fire.

奥斯滕开火灾发生时的一则滑稽轶事。

And the economist Keynes, there's a famous incident.

经济学家凯恩斯有一则著名轶事。

Trollope himself tells how he surprised the editor of a periodical, who wanted a serial from him, by asking how many thousand words it should run to; an anecdote savouring indeed of good old days.

特罗洛普自己了他是如何让一个期刊的编辑感到惊讶的，他想他那里得到一个连载，问他应该写多少万字；一则轶事确实让人回想起过去的美好时光。

And so it's kind of an anecdote that there's a lot of knowledge and insights that can be trapped in the margins.

因此，这有点像一则轶事，表明在边缘地带可能蕴藏着大量知识和洞见，等待被发掘。

It shows up in full force in the 1830s in an anecdote widely reprinted in newspapers.

它在1830年代以全盛势出现在被各大报纸广泛转载的一则轶事中。

It was there that I overheard an anecdote about someone who flunked-out of college while trying to become an engineer.

正是在那里， 我无意中听到一则轶事， 的是有人试图成为工程师却未能大学毕业。