单词	fable
释义	fablefa‧ble /ˈfeɪbəl/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINfable Origin: 1200-1300 Old French, Latin fabula ‘conversation, story’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES monsters of fable and legend My favorite is the fable of the race between the tortoise and the hare. The best-known of Aesop's fables is "The Tortoise and the Hare'. The life of Howard Hughes cannot fail to remind us of the fable of Midas. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And Notes from Underground is precisely such a fable of disembodied consciousness. In several fables the kelpie appears as a handsome young prince, who lures maidens to a watery fate worse than death. The result is a dark, intoxicating fable about the limits of imagination and the power of memory. This is just a fable to frighten the children with a bit of free preaching thrown in. You made it a kind of fable. Thesaurus THESAURUS► story a description of how something happened that is intended to entertain people, and may be true or imaginary: · a ghost story· a love story· It’s a story about a man who loses his memory.· a book of short stories ► tale a story about strange imaginary events, or exciting events that happened in the past: · a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen· I loved hearing tales of his travels. ► myth noun [countable, uncountable] a very old imaginary story about gods and magical creatures: · an ancient myth· Greek and Roman myths ► legend noun [countable, uncountable] an old story about brave people or magical events that are probably not true: · popular legends of the creation of the world· According to legend, King Arthur was buried there. ► fable a traditional imaginary short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially a story about animals: · the fable of the tortoise and the hare· a Chinese fable ► epic a story told in a long book, film, or poem which is about great or exciting events, especially in history: · an epic about 13th-century Scottish hero William Wallace ► saga a story about a series of events that take place over a long period of time, especially events involving one family: · a family saga beginning in the 1880s ► yarn informal a long exciting story that is not completely true: · The movie’s a rattling good yarn and full of action. Longman Language Activatorstories that are intended to teach people something► allegory a story in which the events and characters represent something or someone else from the real world: · "Animal Farm' is an allegory in which the animals represent the Russian people and Farmer Jones the old Tsarist regime.allegory of: · The film was a dark, powerful allegory of life in post-war America. ► parable a short simple story that is used to teach something, especially what is morally right: · Christ used parables to explain moral questions in a way that people could understand.· It is a kind of parable for the eighties -- a lesson about the destructiveness of greed.parable of: · the parable of 'The Prodigal Son' ► fable a story that has a moral message, especially a story in which animals are used to represent people's good and bad behaviour: · The best-known of Aesop's fables is "The Tortoise and the Hare'.· The life of Howard Hughes cannot fail to remind us of the fable of Midas. WORD SETS► Literature acrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun 1[countable] a traditional short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially a story about animals:  the fable of the fox and the crow► see thesaurus at story2[uncountable] fables or other traditional stories:  monsters of fable
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