| 单词 | tale |
| 释义 | tale I. 1. obsolete 2. a. < this error was due to a tale of misfortunes piling up simultaneously — Frank Debenham > < a similar tale of lack of communication between administrators and students — M.J.Herskovits > < multiple-factor analysis has much the same tale to tell — William Stephenson > < thereby hangs a tale — Shakespeare > b. (1) < dead men tell no tales > < telling tales out of school > (2) < the person who listens to gossip makes no free and generous effort to understand … the person about whom the tale is told — H.A.Overstreet > c. < the disputants ultimately found themselves in the same tale > 3. a. < tales based on folklore, legends of great men and small — Jane G. Mahler > < it is essential … to know whether a given tale is regarded as historical fact or fiction — W.R.Bascom > < the tale goes back to the time when he was still a buck private — Marion Hargrove > b. < the prince of literary rogues, who always preferred the tale to the truth — Sir Winston Churchill > < sheer tall tales spun by a moralist who was also a comic poet — Margaret Marshall > 4. a. < as he admitted them to the fold … cast away one pebble at a time from his pile until the tale was complete — J.A.N.Friend > < when the short tale of English dead is rendered — L.G.Pine > b. < find pride, impatience, unreasonableness … all the unpleasant if effective tale of traits of the successful technician of revolution — Crane Brinton > c. < repaired to the treasury where each handed over his tale of 70 pieces — John Craig > II. III. variant of tael |
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