[N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES 名称名词;名称名词](常包含魔法或惊险内容的)传说,故事 A tale is a story, often involving magic or exciting events.
...a collection of stories, poems and folk tales...
由短篇故事、诗歌和传说汇成的作品集
Episodes 1 and 2 of Tales of the City will be shown together on Tuesday.
《城市故事》的第一、二集将于星期二两集连播。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](对真人真事精彩的或夸张的)描述,讲述 You can refer to an interesting, exciting, or dramatic account of a real event as a tale .
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The media have been filled with tales of horror and loss resulting from Monday's earthquake.
媒体上尽是星期一发生的地震所带来的恐惧和损失的报道。
...a property analyst, full of cheery tales about soaring share prices and new capital pouring into property companies.
总是兴高采烈地描述着股票价格飙升和新资本源源不断注入房地产公司的房地产分析师
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See also:
fairy tale
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old wives’ tale
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tall tale
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[PHRASE 短语]大难不死;逃过劫难;幸免于难 If you survive a dangerous or frightening experience and so are able to tell people about it afterwards, you can say that you lived to tell the tale .
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You lived to tell the tale this time but who knows how far you can push your luck.
你这次算是逃过了一劫,不过谁知道你的运气还会持续多久呢?
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[PHRASE 短语]See also:
tell-tale
;造谣;泄密 If someone tells tales about you, they tell other people things about you which are untrue or which you wanted to be kept secret.
[V inflects]
I hesitated, not wanting to tell tales about my colleague.
我犹豫了,不想说同事的坏话。
Oxford
tale/teɪl; NAmEteɪl/noun1a story created using the imagination, especially one that is full of action and adventure (尤指充满惊险的)故事;历险记◆Dickens' ‘A Tale of Two Cities’狄更斯的《双城记》◆a fairy/moral/romantic, etc. tale童话、寓言、爱情故事等☞see also
folk tale
2an exciting spoken description of an event, which may not be completely true (精彩但不一定完全真实的)讲述,叙述◆I love listening to his tales of life at sea.我喜欢听他讲述他的海上生活。◆I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.我听说有人在那栋房子里见到过鬼。◆The team's tale of woecontinued on Saturday (= they lost another match).上星期六这支队又遭败绩。◆Her experiences provide a cautionary tale(= a warning)for us all. 她的经历成了我们大家的前车之鉴。☞see also
telltale
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taletale /teɪl/ ●●●W3 noun [countable]
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1a story about exciting imaginary eventstale of tales of adventure a book of old Japanese folk tales (=traditional stories) a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen a cautionary tale (=one that is told to warn people about the dangers of something)► see thesaurus at
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2a description of interesting or exciting things that happened to someone, often one which is not completely true about every detailtale of/about tales of her life in post-war Berlintale of/about how He was in the middle of telling me a long tale about how he once met Bob Dylan.3tell tales British English to tell someone in authority about something wrong that someone else has doneSYN tattle American Englishtale to Don’t go telling tales to the teacher!4tale of woea)a description of events that made you unhappyb)a series of bad things that happened to someone: The England team’s tale of woe continued, and they lost the next three games. →
fairy tale
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COLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + talea fairy tale· It looked like a castle in a fairy tale.a folk tale (=a traditional story)· a book of Scottish folk talesa cautionary tale (=one that is told to warn someone about the dangers of something)· This cautionary tale illustrates the dangers of looking for quick profits.a tall tale (=one that is difficult to believe and unlikely to be true)· She enjoyed making up tall tales to tell the children.verbstell a tale· He liked telling tales of his adventures in the wilderness.
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