tale
英 [te?l]
美[tel]
- n. 故事；傳說；敘述；流言蜚語
- n. (Tale)人名；(塞)塔萊
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?tales;
中文詞源
tale 故事，歷險(xiǎn)記，講述，敘述
來自古英語 talu,計(jì)算，數(shù)數(shù)，故事，寓言，來自 Proto-Germanic*talo,計(jì)算，告知，來自 PIE*del, 瞄準(zhǔn)，計(jì)算，思考，詞源同 tell,teller,talk.
英英釋意
- 1. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;
- "his narrative was interesting"
- "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
- 2. a trivial lie;
- "he told a fib about eating his spinach"
- "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
英文詞源
- tale
- tale: [OE] A tale is etymologically something that is ‘told’. The word is descended from a prehistoric Germanic *talō, a derivative of the base *tal-, which also produced English talk and tell. Of its Germanic relatives, German zahl, Dutch getal, Swedish antal, and Danish tal all mean ‘number’, reflecting a secondary meaning ‘reckoning, enumeration’ which once existed in English, perhaps as an introduction from Old Norse (it survives in the related teller ‘counter of votes’ and all told).
=> talk, tell - tale (n.)
- Old English talu "series, calculation," also "story, tale, statement, deposition, narrative, fable, accusation, action of telling," from Proto-Germanic *talo (cognates: Dutch taal "speech, language," Danish tale "speech, talk, discourse," German Erz?hlung "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."
The ground sense of the Modern English word in its main meaning, then, might have been "an account of things in their due order." Related to talk (v.) and tell (v.). Meaning "things divulged that were given secretly, gossip" is from mid-14c.; first record of talebearer "tattletale" is late 15c.
同義詞辨析
novel, romance, fiction, story, fable, tale
這些名詞均含"小說，故事"之意。
novel： 指任何有情節(jié)、人物、對白，虛構(gòu)的長篇散文體故事。
romance系novel早期的代用詞，泛指具有強(qiáng)烈神話和傳奇色彩的故事，現(xiàn)指愛情故事。
fiction： 指部分或全部虛構(gòu)的短篇、中篇、長篇小說，也指傳奇故事，是小說的總稱。
story： 指篇幅較短，常包含一系列情節(jié)或事件，口述或書寫成文的故事。
fable： 指短小而寓有教育意義的虛構(gòu)故事。故事的主人公多為擬人化的動物或非動物之類。也作傳說解。
tale?？膳cstory換用，指以事實(shí)為中心作敘述的故事，也指古代流傳下來的傳說故事或神話故事。
考試真題
- This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.
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- Nearly every business has a sad tale to tell.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.
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- Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like Earth.
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- Along the way are tales of kings and queens, hot air balloons...and monkeys in space.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.
2019年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Send us a tale about the strange behaviour of unique pets or wildlife in up 300 words.
2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- These problems partly involve Brooks's attempt to translate his tale into science.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文
詞組搭配
a tale of a tub
(archaic)an apocryphal story
(古)荒誕的故事
tell tales
實(shí)用場景例句
- Dickens' ‘A Tale of Two Cities ’
- 狄更斯的《雙城記》
牛津詞典
- a fairy/moral/romantic, etc. tale
- 童話、寓言、愛情故事等
牛津詞典
- I love listening to his tales of life at sea.
- 我喜歡聽他講述他的海上生活。
牛津詞典
- I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.
- 我聽說有人在那棟房子里見到過鬼。
牛津詞典
- The team's tale of woe continued on Saturday (= they lost another match) .
- 上星期六這支隊(duì)又遭敗績。
牛津詞典
- Her experiences provide a cautionary tale (= a warning) for us all.
- 她的經(jīng)歷成了我們大家的前車之鑒。
牛津詞典
- ...a collection of stories, poems and folk tales...
- 由短篇故事、詩歌和傳說匯成的作品集
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Episodes 1 and 2 of Tales of the City will be shown together on Tuesday.
- 《城市故事》的第一、二集將于星期二兩集連播。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The media have been filled with tales of horror and loss resulting from Monday's earthquake.
- 媒體上盡是星期一發(fā)生的地震所帶來的恐懼和損失的報(bào)道。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- ...a property analyst, full of cheery tales about soaring share prices and new capital pouring into property companies.
- 總是興高采烈地描述著股票價(jià)格飆升和新資本源源不斷注入房地產(chǎn)公司的房地產(chǎn)分析師
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- You lived to tell the tale this time but who knows how far you can push your luck.
- 你這次算是逃過了一劫，不過誰知道你的運(yùn)氣還會持續(xù)多久呢？
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- I hesitated, not wanting to tell tales about my colleague.
- 我猶豫了，不想說同事的壞話。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- I'll be revenged on the whole lot of you for this.
- 這個(gè)仇我是要報(bào)的,你們一個(gè)也逃不了.
期刊摘選
- They can't work off that tale on us.
- 他們那套鬼話騙不了我們.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- What he said sounded like a fairy tale.
- 他說的聽上去簡直像一篇神話.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- There is no denying his tale.
- 他說的話是無可否認(rèn)的.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- It is nothing but a traveller's tale.
- 這只不過是海外奇談.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- A pat tale aroused a big laugh.
- 一個(gè)貼切適時(shí)的故事引起一陣大笑.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- The children listened enthralled as the storyteller unfolded her tale.
- 講故事的人一步步展開故事情節(jié),孩子們都聽得入迷了.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Thereby hangs a tale.
- 其中有點(diǎn)蹊蹺[必有原因].
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- A long tale gives a child fidgets.
- 太長的故事會使小孩子煩躁不安.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- Do you expect me to credit that absurd tale?
- 你想我會相信那個(gè)荒謬絕倫的謊言 嗎 ?
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- He wove a fascinating tale of knights in shining armour.
- 他編了一個(gè)穿著明亮盔甲的騎士的迷人故事.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Each of the survivors had a terrible tale to tell.
- 每一個(gè)幸存者都有一番恐怖的經(jīng)歷可講.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Is there anybody who can tell a fairy tale?
- 有人能講童話故事 嗎 ?
《簡明英漢詞典》
- It's a tragic tale.
- 這是一個(gè)凄慘的故事.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
- 她聽夠了那些關(guān)于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- a cautionary tale about the problems of buying a computer
- 有關(guān)購買計(jì)算機(jī)時(shí)可能遇到種種問題的告誡
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》
- Jan Roberts weaves a compelling tale which traps a young woman in a world run by the Mafia.
- 簡·羅伯茨編了一個(gè)引人入勝的故事，誘騙一位年輕女性進(jìn)入了黑手黨的地盤。
柯林斯例句
- Roy told his sorrowful tale with simple words anybody could understand.
- 羅伊用簡單的、人人都能理解的語言講述了他那個(gè)傷感的故事。
柯林斯例句