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n. 寓言；无稽之谈
vi. 编寓言；虚构
vt. 煞有介事地讲述；虚构
n. (Fable)人名；(法)法布勒；(英)费布尔
n.
寓言，童话；传说；无稽之谈；人人谈论的话题
v.
讲故事，编寓言；虚构，杜撰；煞有介事地讲；
变形
复数：fables过去式：fabled过去分词：fabled现在分词：fabling第三人称单数：fables
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]寓言 a short story that teaches a lesson of moral and that often has animals as speaking characters
[U]神话，传说 such stories and legends considered as a group
英英释义
fable[ 'feibl ]
n.
a deliberately false or improbable account
同义词：fabricationfiction
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
同义词：parableallegoryapologue
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
同义词：legend
同近义词辨析
story, tale, fiction, fable, romance, novel这组词都有“小说，故事”的意思，其区别是：
story指篇幅较短，常包含一系列情节或事件，口述或书写成文的故事。
tale常可与story换用，指以事实为中心作叙述的故事，也指古代流传下来的传说故事或神话故事。
fiction指部分或全部虚构的短篇、中篇、长篇小说，也指传奇故事，是小说的总称。
fable指短小而寓有教育意义的虚构故事。故事的主人公多为拟人化的动物或非动物之类。也作传说解。
romance系novel早期的代用词，泛指具有强烈神话和传奇色彩的故事，现指爱情故事。
novel指任何有情节、人物、对白，虚构的长篇散文体故事。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
Fables often have animals as the main characters.
寓言常以动物为主角。
The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable.
接下来这一段是出自一篇有名的寓言。
We may take the story of Job for a history or a fable.
我们可以把关于约伯的故事当作历史或者当作神话。
We have to learn to distinguish fact from fable.
我们应当学会识别真伪。
用作动词(v.)
He fabled about his lot.
他编造自己的身世。
权威例句
The Fable of the BeesMatthew: Effect or Fable?
The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation
The fable of the bees: Private vices, publick benefits.
Fable: A Language for Enforcing User-defined Security Policies
THe Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable
BREWER'S 'DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE'
The Commodity-Consumer Price Connection: Fact or Fable?
CITYSCAPE AS MORAL FABLE: THE PLACE OF JEWISH HISTORY AND AMERICAN SOCIAL REALISM IN BERNARD MALAMUD'S IMAGINATION
fable
fable: [13] The Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’ has produced a wide range of English words, including (via Germanic) ban and (via Latin fārī ‘speak’) affable, confess, fairy, fame, fate, ineffable, infant, nefarious, and profess. Fable is a member of this latter group; it comes via Old French fable from Latin fābula ‘narrative, story’ (source also of English fabulous [15]), which was a derivative of fārī. Fib [17] is probably short for an earlier fible-fable ‘nonsense’, a fanciful reduplication of fable.=> affable, ban, confess, fabulous, fairy, fame, fate, fib, ineffable, infant, nefarious, profess, prophet
fable (n.)
c. 1300, "falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense," from Old French fable "story, fable, tale; drama, play, fiction; lie, falsehood" (12c.), from Latin fabula "story, story with a lesson, tale, narrative, account; the common talk, news," literally "that which is told," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)). Restricted sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"].
1. Like the fable of the boy who cried “Wolf,” when there is finally real danger, the confirmation box won’t work because it cried too many times when there was no danger.
就像寓言故事里大叫“狼来了”的男孩，当最后真正有危险时，确认对话框不能起作用，因为它在没有危险时叫了太多次。
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2. She became the chief fable of the town.
她成了镇上的中心话题。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. He had some motive in telling this fable.
他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. Tell them the fable about the fox and the grapes.
告诉他们那个狐狸与葡萄的寓言吧。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. We could not decide if it was fact or fable.
我们无法确定这究竟是事实还是无稽之谈。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. The fable is given on the next page.
这篇寓言登在下一页上。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. Such walls as in time may linger as a mere fable.
这类高墙到将来只会给后代当作闲话当年的资料罢了。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. We have to learn to distinguish fact from fable.
我们应当学会识别真伪。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. That is a mere fable.
那是无稽之谈。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. Great satire needs the sustenance of great fable.
伟大的讽刺作品需要伟大的怪异故事来滋养它。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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