tale 的定义
- 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.
tale 近义词
story
made-up story
更多tale例句
- 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.