fable
名词 n.
动词 v.
发音 fā′bəl
英文释义
名词 n.
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
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Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
— But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.
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Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
— I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men.
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The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
— For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;
动词 v.
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To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
— He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.
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To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
— […] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
词源 2
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
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