| 词汇 | fable |
| 释义 | fable noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈfeɪ.bəl/ us /ˈfeɪ.bəl/ a short story that tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this type: 寓言;寓言故事 the fable of the tortoise and the hare龟兔赛跑的寓言故事 Accounts and stories anecdote another anti-narrative backstory be another storyidiom bodice-ripper cautionary tale in medias res kompromat legend legendary lore misdescription rundown running commentaryphrase scenario semi-legendary shaggy-dog story strand write something up fable | American Dictionaryfable noun[ C ] us/ˈfeɪ·bəl/ literature a short story that tells a moral truth, often using animals as characters: Latisha loves the fable about the grasshopper and the ant. Examples of fablefable The first volume contained mostly stories and fables about animals, the scientific conversations were in the third volume, and the moral tales in the fourth. No longer a fable of antique curiosity, the riddle expressed the urgent need for reform. The doubling of props was further matched by the characters' frequent transitions between the worlds of domesticity and fable. Stars used to be grouped by fable and narrative while later they were grouped by spectral class. The performative impact of fables derives from the fact that until recently they were part of the school child's curriculum and were learned by rote. And he gave us no thanks for the favors and the many thoughts, because, full of himself, he hawked a fable. He rather considers the fable as a sort of moral example. What unifies the action of the fable so that it forms a whole is the moral sentence it offers to intuition. He argues that in their moral treatises, theologians and great philosophers have often effectively employed incredible fables that were patently untrue. Surely, we would banish such a report to the realm of fables. Other tableaux were more directly based on fables and folk-tales. This suggests that the compilers had in mind a two-part work, one an allegorical fable, the other a historical narrative. Natural histories had begun to aim for objectivity and raged against myths and fables. Evidence that does not fit their preconceptions is more likely to be dismissed as misleading (fantasy, fable, fib or fiction). I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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