tale

释义

n.

（尤指充满惊险的）故事；历险记；（精彩但不一定完全真实的）讲述

网络

传说；坏话；谣言

词形变化

复数：tales

常用短语 7 组

fairy tale

神话故事，童话；谎言

folk tale

民间故事

tell the tale

编讲悲惨的往事

nursery tale

童话

tell a tale

◎揭露内情

tall tale

n. 吹牛，说大话；夸张的故事，荒诞的故事

old wives' tale

无稽之谈；愚蠢的迷信（尤指老妇人所持的）

在例句中理解 34 句

1. "She's just a fairy tale character others will read about. . . and metaphor for hope to me, " I replied with a wink.

   “她只是一个人们可能会读到的某个童话故事里的人物…我把她比作希望。”我冲她眨眨眼作为回应。

2. But there was an object destined to Shalassa that was never offered as it should have been, and has become the subject of many a tale.

   但是，仍有一件预订要奉献给莎拉萨的珍宝一直没有被奉献，并因此成就了许多传说。

3. You could almost say that its ordinariness makes it a classic tale.

   你甚至可以说它普通到能成为为一则经典寓言。

4. In a similar version of this tale, the Rabbi leaps on top of the man in a frenzy and carves the story of Ruth on his nose with a stylus.

   在与此故事类似的一个版本中，拉比暴怒之下，将那人扑倒在地，并用铁笔在他鼻子上刻了路得的故事。

5. The question is whether the Tale of Two Recoveries that of the rich and that of everyone else is sustainable.

   问题在于，美国富豪和其他人口这两大阵营的共同复苏是否具有可持续性？

6. A humdinger of a tale about the animal is often a clue that this is a wine to avoid.

   对动物的大肆渲染，往往是提示我们不要买这样的酒。

7. "Gobbledegook" sounds like the name of a monster in a fairy tale.

   这个词听起来像是神话传说中某个妖怪的名字。

8. Had I been a Burmese citizen, I would not be around to tell the tale.

   如果我是缅甸的公民，我就不会再来讲这个故事。

9. " The word comes from Serendip, the name of a country in the fifth-century fairy tale " The Three Princes of Serendip.

   这个词源自Serendip（锡兰的旧称），是五世纪时童话故事《锡兰国三王子》中的国名。

10. Ge Laoer Huoci respected Hollywood cartoon film "Shrek" , calling it a rare Watch Now is not the fairy tale.

    格劳尔霍茨推崇好莱坞的卡通片《怪物史莱克》，称之为难得的不以貌取人的童话。

11. At the heart of this cautionary tale sits the cigar-chomping Mr Cayne, who revelled in his firm's image as Wall Street's scrappy outsider.

    大声嚼着雪茄的凯恩先生处于这个引人警戒的故事的中心，他酷爱其公司作为华尔街好斗的局外人形象。

12. You are probably thinking that it is very immature of me to be telling a fairy tale like this one.

    也许你会觉得这样一篇童话对于我这样的年龄显得幼稚，

13. The innkeeper, hearing his tale and believing what he said, became greatly alarmed and, rising from his seat, attempted to run away.

    旅店老板听信了他的鬼话，变得异常紧张，从座位上站起来要逃走。

14. Perhaps the Snail Girl was just a tale, but the young man Huangbaishan was a real person.

    田螺姑娘兴许是传说，但黄百三郎可是确有其人。

15. The Whistleblower, based on a true tale of forced prostitution in Bosnia, is not the first movie I would have rushed out to see.

    举报人的基础上，在波斯尼亚被迫卖淫的真实故事，是不是我会冲了出去，看到的第一部电影。

16. I can tell you a little tale, that of a parakeet that was in love with Picasso.

    我能够告诉你们一个小故事，一只鹦哥鸟爱上毕卡索。

17. No. It's something I began in London. It's the tale of a young woman. . . two young wamen. Better than their circunmstances.

    不。在伦敦开始写的。关于一个……两个年轻女子的故事。她们的境况比我们好多了。

18. It gets so hard to hide it well. =I have such a strong desire to tell the tale that I can hardly hide it well.

    我强烈地想把心中的故事讲出来，我已无法把它藏在心中。

19. Tale of Two cities is Dickens' tale of London and Paris leading up to, and during, the dramatic upheavals of the French Revolution.

    狄更斯的双城记是叙述接近大革命和在大革命期间发生在伦敦和巴黎的故事。

20. Once upon a time the young man was perhaps not a frog in the beginning of the fairy tale as in the story first told by the Grimm brothers.

    从前的年轻人也许不是在为故事中首先由格林兄弟童话故事开始告诉青蛙。

21. "There is a little bit of daylight, but October is going to tell the tale, " he said.

    他说：“我们可以看到一丝微弱的曙光，但是10月份的数据将让我们看出点眉目。”

22. The songs talks about the fairy of tale how a boy falls in love with a girl -- it is all arranged by fate.

    歌曲讲述一个男孩爱上另一个女孩的神话故事-都是缘份注定的。

23. i know that life is not a fairy tale, and i'm not asking for a happy ending. all i'm asking is a real imperfect love story about you and me.

    我知道，生活不是童话，所以我不求童话般的完美结局，只希望能拥有一个不完美但却真实的爱情故事。故事的主角，只有你和我。

24. Frosty the Snowman is a fairy tale, they say; He was made of snow, but the children know how he came to life one day.

    人说雪人佛斯弟是个童话人物，他虽是雪堆成的，但孩童们知道就在某天他变成活人。

25. For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth: that there is no such thing as a true tale.

    因为有一件事情那些信奉唯一真神和唯一真理的祭祀们不懂：世上根本没有所谓的唯一真实的故事。

26. You see that it is hard to speak of a symbol in a tale whose most obvious quality just happens to be naturalness.

    你会发现，这很难称得上是故事中的象征，象征最显见的特征恰恰就是自然性（naturalness）。

27. I had read A Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel.

    我读过《双城记》，认为这本书符合我心目中浪漫主义小说的标准。

28. After stringent security, into the center of the venue, the reporter feel like a fairy tale into a colorful world.

    经过严格的安检，踏入会场中心后，记者感觉犹如进入了一个五彩缤纷的童话世界。

29. Among those to have survived to tell the tale is a 28-year-old from Tembisa, a township near Johannesburg, who does not wish to be named.

    一名来自Johannesbur附近的一个乡镇Tembisa，28岁幸存下来的、不希望被记名的女子，讲述了这个故事。

30. Exclusion to cover up the distance the roar of waterfalls, and the bursts of pines roar, like a symphony, led us into a fairy-tale world.

    远处飞瀑排挤掩饰的轰鸣声和着松涛的阵阵呼啸，好像一首交响乐，领着我们走进童话世界。

31. a book of old Japanese folk tales

    日本古老民间故事书

32. a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

    安徒生的一则童话

33. a cautionary tale

    警示故事

34. tales of her life in post-war Berlin

    有关她在战后柏林生活的传闻