tale

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n. 故事, 谎言, 谣言, 陈述, 叙述 [法] 虚语, 诽语, 谣言

发音

AU /ˈteːl/

词形变化

tales 复数 taled tales 三单 tales taling taling 现在分词 taled 过去式 taled 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

    故事

    神话

    the Canterbury Tales

  2. 2.

    A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

  3. 3.

    An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

    Don't tell tales!

  4. 4.

    A count; declaration.

    废旧 法律
  5. 5.

    The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.

    俚语
  6. 6.

    Number; tally; quota.

    废旧
  7. 7.

    Account; estimation; regard; heed.

    废旧
  8. 8.

    Speech; language.

    废旧
  9. 9.

    A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

    废旧
  10. 10.

    A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

    古体 罕用
  11. 11.

    A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

    古体 罕用
  12. 1.

    Alternative form of tael.

v.
  1. 1.

    To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

    苏格兰 方言
  2. 2.

    To speak; discourse; tell tales.

    方言 废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

story narrative narration fib taradiddle tarradiddle

上位词 6

lie message content substance subject matter prevarication

下位词 10

fairytale folktale fairy story cock-and-bull story nursery rhyme sob story sob stuff song and dance tall tale tearjerker

相关短语

fairy tale 神话故事, 童话, 谎言 tale of the tape tale bearer tale bearers tale of woe Monk's Tale stanza tall tale n. 吹牛大话 old wives' tale 荒诞故事, 无稽之谈 folk tale 民间故事；民间传说 cautionary tale 警世故事 pourquoi tale old wise tale

词源

From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with West Frisian taal (“speech, language”), Dutch taal (“language, speech”), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Icelandic tala (“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

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