Fable
['feɪb(ə)l] or ['febl]
解释:
(n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
(n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
(n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
(n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
(v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
(v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
阿纳托尔校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Story (fictitious), tale, parable, APOLOGUE, ALLEGORY, myth, legend.[2]. Plot, action, series of events.[3]. Fiction, falsehood, lie, untruth, forgery, invention, fabrication, figment, coinage of the brain.
v. n. Feign, write fiction.
v. a. Feign, invent.
奥德丽整理
解释:
n. a narrative in which things irrational and sometimes inanimate are for the purpose of moral instruction feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions: any tale in literary form not necessarily probable in its incidents intended to instruct or amuse: the plot or series of events in an epic or dramatic poem: a fiction or myth: a ridiculous story as in 'old wives' fables ' a falsehood: subject of common talk.—v.i. to tell fictitious tales: (obs.) to tell falsehoods.—v.t. to feign: to invent.—p.adj. Fā′bled mythical.—n. Fā′bler a writer or narrator of fictions.—adj. Fab′ular.—v.i. Fab′ulīse to write fables or to speak in fables.—ns. Fab′ulist one who invents fables; Fabulos′ity Fab′ulousness.—adj. Fab′ulous feigned false: related in fable: immense amazing.—adv. Fab′ulously.
手打:罗谢尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream of reading or telling fables, denotes pleasant tasks and a literary turn of mind. To the young, it signifies romantic attachments. To hear, or tell, religious fables, denotes that the dreamer will become very devotional.
乔茜录入
例句:
- Nobody supposed he cared anything about an old fable like that of Scylla and Charybdis. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- In these and her clean dress originated a fable that she was well to do in the world: one might say, for her station, rich. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- No hero of mythology or fable ever dared such dragons to rescue some captive goddess as did this dauntless champion of civilization. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She is the sun and I the wind, in the fable, and the sun managed the man best, you remember. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The choice of Hercules is a pretty fable; but Prodicus makes it easy work for the hero, as if the first resolves were enough. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Fable and imagination have traced back the origin of freemasonry to the Roman Empire, to the Pharaohs, the Temple of Solomon, the Tower of Babel, and even to the building of Noah’s ark. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- God was not a blind force, and immortality was not a pretty fable, but a blessed fact. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- That fable is unjust, which gives the superiority to the sun over the wind. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Assuming an attitude, she began, La Ligue des Rats: fable de La Fontaine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- On the night before the assault on Seringapatam, he was absurdly angry with me, and with others, for treating the whole thing as a fable. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- As making a comfortable provision for its subject which costs nobody anything, this class of fable has long been popular. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable: There was an old woman, and what do you think? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- All scout it as a fable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The fables we meet with in poems and romances put this entirely out of the question. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
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