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词汇 tale
释义 tale
noun[ C ]
uk /teɪl/ us /teɪl/
B2
a story, especially one that might be invented or difficult to believe: (尤指包含离奇内容的)故事,不实之词
He told some fascinating tales about his life in India.他讲了他在印度生活的一些奇闻轶事。
She told me/invented/concocted a tale about missing the bus to explain her lateness.为了解释迟到的原因,她向我讲了/编造了一通没赶上公共汽车的鬼话。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accounts and stories
anecdote
another
anti-narrative
backstory
be another storyidiom
bodice-ripper
cautionary tale
horror story
in medias res
kompromat
legend
legendary
lore
reminiscence
rundown
running commentaryphrase
scenario
semi-legendary
strand
write something up

Idiom


tale of woe

tale | American Dictionary


tale
noun[ C ]
us/teɪl/
a story or report, esp. one that is invented or difficult to believe:
a fairy tale
His life story makes a pretty remarkable tale.

Examples of tale


tale
In the pages of women's journals, these tragic tales were placed along with explicit advice against immoral public behavior.
At the same time, trivial anecdotes and tales of curiosities from abroad were also included.
Other tales in the same collection feature chained madmen (pp. 360 - 61).
Historians have concentrated on the latter - official and government reports, chronicles and travellers' tales and, in the late nineteenth century, ethnographic studies.
Most accounts of pre-puberty marriage written by women, however, open with tales of childish pleasure at the pomp and grandeur of the wedding ceremony.
The medieval 'gestour' was one who told tales, romances and the like.
Developing autonomy for tellers, tales, and telling in family narrative events.
Developing autonomy for tellers, tales and telling in family narrative events.
The tales also show how authors labor for their own recognition by presenting themselves as necessary advocates, companions, and accompanists of the objects.
The narrative logic of both genres demanded tragic love tales.
No tales are told out of school, here.
The different cautionary tales show how the authors labor for the users' understanding and recognition of the code's epistemic dimension.
In all the other tales, we are told explicitly why the ghosts return and what they desire.
Such tales may well refer to concrete historical events.
Many of the old people will tell tales only in the evening; it is not right, not lucky, to do so during daylight.
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Collocations withtale


tale

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classic tale
It has been a classictale of order, counter-order and disorder.
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epic tale
Widescreen means a big film, an epictale in this case an epictale of human endurance.
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harrowing tale
It is a harrowingtale.
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