| 单词 | fairy-tale writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy-tale writer C1. General attributive and objective, as fairy-tale hero, fairy-tale heroine, fairy-tale writer, etc. ΚΠ 1808 Monthly Rev. 56 App. 541 In an oriental tale, the Fairies or Genii must be introduced..: but, alas! our fairy-tale days are passed. 1812 S. H. Burney Traits of Nature II. v. 137 The sight of these great rooms..put me immensely in mind of some of the Fairy-tale heroines I have met with. 1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xiv. 56 I had also a fairy-tale book. 1857 tr. J. Grimm in tr. A. Dietrich Russ. Pop. Tales p. viii How and when this story fell into the hands of a Russian fairy-tale writer will perhaps never be ascertained. 1892 Sat. Rev. 9 July 50/2 The benevolence of a fairy-tale king. 1919 F. Dell Were you ever Child? v. 49 The fairy-tale hero is confronted with an impossible task. 1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 212 There is only one fairy-tale motif, to my knowledge, that contains an element of inner conflict. 1987 M. M. Tatar Hard Facts Grimm's Fairy Tales iii. 79 Psychoanalyzing a fairy-tale plot is tantamount to psychoanalyzing a fairy-tale character. 2009 J. Schenkar Talented Miss Highsmith vii. 84 The infant Pat imagined Stanley to be a kind of fairy-tale ogre. < as lemmas |
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