fable音标
英 [ˈfeɪbl]
美 [ˈfebəl]
fable翻译
n.
寓言,童话;传说;无稽之谈;人人谈论的话题
v.
讲故事,编寓言;虚构,杜撰;煞有介事地讲;
变形
复数:fables过去式:fabled过去分词:fabled现在分词:fabling第三人称单数:fables
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]寓言a short story that teaches a lesson of moral and that often has animals as speaking characters[U]神话,传说such stories and legends considered as a group
英英释义
fable[ 'feibl ]
n.a deliberately false or improbable account
同义词:fabricationfiction
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
同义词:parableallegoryapologue
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
同义词:legend
fable用法
同近义词辨析
story, tale, fiction, fable, romance, novel
这组词都有“小说,故事”的意思,其区别是:
story指篇幅较短,常包含一系列情节或事件,口述或书写成文的故事。
tale常可与story换用,指以事实为中心作叙述的故事,也指古代流传下来的传说故事或神话故事。
fiction指部分或全部虚构的短篇、中篇、长篇小说,也指传奇故事,是小说的总称。
fable指短小而寓有教育意义的虚构故事。故事的主人公多为拟人化的动物或非动物之类。也作传说解。
romance系novel早期的代用词,泛指具有强烈神话和传奇色彩的故事,现指爱情故事。
novel指任何有情节、人物、对白,虚构的长篇散文体故事。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)Fables often have animals as the main characters.
寓言常以动物为主角。The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable.
接下来这一段是出自一篇有名的寓言。We may take the story of Job for a history or a fable.
我们可以把关于约伯的故事当作历史或者当作神话。We have to learn to distinguish fact from fable.
我们应当学会识别真伪。用作动词(v.)He fabled about his lot.
他编造自己的身世。
权威例句
The Fable of the Bees
Matthew: Effect or Fable?
The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation
The fable of the bees: Private vices, publick benefits.
Fable: A Language for Enforcing User-defined Security Policies
THe Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable
BREWER'S 'DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE'
The Commodity-Consumer Price Connection: Fact or Fable?
CITYSCAPE AS MORAL FABLE: THE PLACE OF JEWISH HISTORY AND AMERICAN SOCIAL REALISM IN BERNARD MALAMUD'S IMAGINATION