tale
tale 英 [teɪl] 美 [tel]
n. 故事；传说；
名词复数:tales
- A tale is a story, especially one that's full of creative embellishments. You can read a tale from a book, or tell a bedtime tale to the kids you're babysitting.
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- n. 故事；传说；
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1. a fairy tale, a moral tale, a romantic tale
童话、寓言、爱情故事等
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2. I love listening to his tales of life at sea.
我喜欢听他讲述他的海上生活。
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3. 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。
- tale (n.) Old English talu "series, calculation," also "story, tale, statement, deposition, narrative, fable, accusation, action of telling," from Proto-Germanic *talo (source also of Dutch taal "speech, language," Danish tale "speech, talk, discourse," German Erzählung "story," Gothic talzjan "to teach"), from PIE root *del- (2) "to recount, count." The secondary Modern English sense of "number, numerical reckoning" (c. 1200) probably was the primary one in Germanic; see tell (v.), teller and Old Frisian tale, Middle Dutch tal, Old Saxon tala, Danish tal, Old High German zala, German Zahl "number."
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