Fable

['feɪb(ə)l] or ['febl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a short moral story (often with animal characters).

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解釋/意思:

(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.

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同義詞及近義詞：

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.

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解釋/意思:

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.

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