- A fable is a moral tale that often features animal characters. “The Tortoise and the Hare” is a well-known fable whose moral is "Slow and steady wins the race."
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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
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1. The fable is given on the next page.
这篇寓言登在下一页上。
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2. He had some motive in telling this fable.
他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
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3. The sad friends of Truth in this fable have gone up and down, gathering up Truth limb by limb still as they could find them.
在这个寓言中真理悲伤的朋友到处游走，收集真理的碎片仿佛他们真的能找到这些碎片。
- 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) "to speak, tell, say." 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"].
fable / ˈfeɪbl ; NAmE ˈfeɪbl / noun 1 [countable , uncountable ] a traditional short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially one with animals as characters; these stories considered as a group 寓言；寓言故事 ◆ Aesop's Fables 伊索寓言 ◆ a land rich in fable 寓言之乡 2 [uncountable , countable ] a statement, or an account of sth, that is not true 谎言；不实之词；无稽之谈 fable fables fabled fabling fable / ˈfeɪbl ; NAmE ˈfeɪbl /
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