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tale

/teyl/US // teɪl //UK // (teɪl) //

故事,岈,岈语

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
    • : a literary composition having the form of such a narrative.
    • : a falsehood; lie.
    • : a rumor or piece of gossip, often malicious or untrue.
    • : the full number or amount.
    • : Archaic. enumeration; count.
    • : Obsolete. talk; discourse.

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Examples

  • If tales are true, he’s one of the biggest bullies Washington has ever seen.

  • OZY and History’s newest podcast, The Food That Built America, tells the tale.

  • Through interviews with both of them and members of their families, Glaser is able to meticulously re-create their tale.

  • The tragedy, of course, is that Spears still can’t tell that tale herself.

  • In this 2018 book, Miller lets Circe take center stage, imagining what filled all the space between her appearances in ancient tales.

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.

  • Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.

  • Whilst Whitacre never defined himself as an “ally,” this remains a cautionary tale of what not to do.

  • Urban America is often portrayed as a tale of two kinds of places, those that “have it” and those who do not.

  • But he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.

  • Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.

  • The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.

  • Until very recently little has been known of the strange land in which the subject of this tale lives.

  • That was how I learnt the strangest tale that ever a man was told, and knew the miracle to which I owed my life.