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fabulist

/fab-yuh-list/US // ˈfæb yə lɪst //UK // (ˈfæbjʊlɪst) //

幻想家,幻想主义者,骗子,幻想者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who invents or relates fables.
    • : a liar.

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Examples

  • The fabulist ocean, this inscrutable outer space whales return from, in a metaphorical sense, enchants us with our own inward enigmas.

  • The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.

  • To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.

  • From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.

  • It is subtitled a "family fable" because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.

  • The born poet still talks that way, he is naturally a fabulist and cannot help himself.

  • Some of these folk-tales suggest the ingenuity of a fabulist.

  • Querulously he complained that people would not take him seriously, that they treated him as a fabulist.

  • In 1664 La Fontaine published his first collection of fables, and it gave him immediately the very highest rank as a fabulist.

  • La Fontaine, the fabulist, was buried by the side of Moliere, who died long before him.