fable
n. 寓言, 神话, 谎言 vi. 虚构, 作寓言
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教材释义与例句
寓言；无稽之谈
煞有介事地讲述；虚构
编寓言；虚构
释义与例句
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A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
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Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
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Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
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The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
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1.
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
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古体 不及物1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50, He fables, yet speaks truth.
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To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
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词源
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
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