Tales
[teɪlz] or ['teliz]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.
(syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.
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解釋/意思:
n.pl. a list of persons apparently a selection from spectators in court made by the sheriff or judge at a trial to supply any defect in a jury or panel.—n. Tā′lesman a bystander so chosen.—Pray a tales to plead that the number of jurymen be completed in this way.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I wonder whether he has been trying any of his traveller's tales on us? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Of what tales are you speaking? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- When I was a very little girl, Mr. Moore, my nurse used to tell me tales of fairies being seen in that Hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking--how shall we answer him? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I took a book--some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We're not going to hear any of those tales. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And here are Crabbe's Tales, and the Idler, at hand to relieve you, if you tire of your great book. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The sceptic will object,—Fairy tales! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy Tales, I suppose you have wished for one? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Luckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but--but--but Yours affectionately. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- These two young couples had plenty of tales to relate to each other. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I don't tell tales, replied Laurie, with his 'high and mighty' air, as Jo called a certain expression which he occasionally wore. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery and impotence of body and mind. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Hale had his own acquaintances among the working men, and was depressed with their earnestly told tales of suffering and long-endurance. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Don't tell me tales. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He made a collection of old German songs and tales, but these were destroyed by his successor Louis the Pious on account of their paganism. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is these tales which have caused that reserve in your manner towards Graham which your father noticed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Well, my dear doubter, how do you know that fairy tales do not contain a germ of truth? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Such tales as that will never tempt my tongue. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Such tales may have their use; but they are not the proper food for soldiers. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But honourable lads will not tell tales upon a lady. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Being seated, he takes from his satchel a book--not the Latin grammar, but a contraband volume of fairy tales. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I didn't mean to preach or tell tales or be silly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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