folk tale

民间故事民间传说民间传奇小说

folk tale 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
  2. any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition.

folk tale 近义词

n. 名词 noun

story that is passed down

folk tale 的近义词 5

更多folk tale例句

  1. By the time Cooper first hears Britton’s story as a Harvard undergrad in the early 2010s, she writes, it has become almost a folk tale about how powerful institutions protect powerful men who do horrible things.
  2. A guide, using myths and folk tales, to help women reconnect with their instinctual nature.
  3. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  4. Some will be avoiding New Year festivities entirely—and very sensible folk they are too.
  5. The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
  6. Phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.
  7. The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.
  8. There are some folk in this country, you know, who manifest a very retiring disposition at times.
  9. It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
  10. But he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.
  11. Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.
  12. The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.