fable 的 3 个定义
- a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare;Aesop's fables.
- a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.
- a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend: the fables of gods and heroes.
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fa·bled, fa·bling.
- to tell or write fables.
- to speak falsely; lie: to fable about one's past.
fa·bled, fa·bling.
- to describe as if actually so; talk about as if true: She is fabled to be the natural daughter of a king.
fable 近义词
fantasy, story
更多fable例句
- The fourth artist, Andrew Hladky, burrows deeply into fable, inspired by a dystopian novel.
- The book’s sequel, “The Spirit of Music,” is a kind of action-adventure fable involving Victor, Michael, and a number of other friends and teachers.
- In her book, Jaffe, a longtime labor journalist, says large corporations specifically conjured this fable in order to pay workers less and give them fewer benefits.
- For a writer who would become most renowned for his nonfiction—he won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams in 1986—it was his short stories and fables and trickster tales that I most cherished, learned from, stole from.
- Like the fable of the city mouse and the country mouse, a city coyote may feel very uncomfortable in the country, and vice versa, guesses Javier Monzon.
- The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
- It is a fable about an elderly woman, “Grandy,” who has suffered an unnamed loss.
- The fable tells us that if policymakers foster competition and cut taxes, the rest will pretty much work itself out.
- D.H. Lawrence wrestled with the discontent of well-off people in his dark fable, “The Rocking-Horse Winner.”
- His hilarious parody-fable, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,” traces the supposed genesis of that culinary delicacy.
- You know the fable about the dog who dropped his meat in the water, trying to snap at its reflection?
- But whatever may be the origin of this fable, the assigning of it to Napoleon is in itself a singular circumstance.
- An allusion to the fable in sop about the earthern and brazen pots being dashed together.
- The two versions of this fable are also instances of the relative capabilities of the French and the English four-stress lines.
- This fable is only one among many others that were narrated with a view to curbing the propensities of blaspheming swearers.