英语词汇“traveller's tale”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

traveller's tale

noun

A story about the unusual characteristics or customs of a foreign country, regarded as typically exaggerated or untrue.Of solitaires there are only travelers' tales and sketches, and a few bones [found in the caves of the limestone platform of the island]....

‘There are travelers' tales from about 1839 reporting Zulu accounts that ‘elephants gently warm their brains with fermented fruits,’ Morris said.
She crams it with stories from so many sources that it resembles a medieval traveler's tale, indiscriminately conflating fact and rumor.

单词	traveller's tale
释义	traveller's tale noun A story about the unusual characteristics or customs of a foreign country, regarded as typically exaggerated or untrue.Of solitaires there are only travelers' tales and sketches, and a few bones [found in the caves of the limestone platform of the island].... ‘There are travelers' tales from about 1839 reporting Zulu accounts that ‘elephants gently warm their brains with fermented fruits,’ Morris said. She crams it with stories from so many sources that it resembles a medieval traveler's tale, indiscriminately conflating fact and rumor.
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