Definition of fable in English:

fable

noun ˈfeɪb(ə)lˈfeɪbəl

1A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
寓言
the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox
Example sentencesExamples
- The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures.
- In the 6th century BCE the Greek author Aesop wrote his timeless fables - short narratives in which animals are the central characters and the aim is to convey a moral message.
- In The Phaedrus Plato recounts a fable whose moral is the bad effects of writing, a moral deriving from the choice he makes in thinking to resolve the dilemma that writing poses.
- The Nun's Priest tells one of the best tales, a beast fable with a moral lesson.
- However even if we doubt the validity of the morals proposed, crude fables frequently remain eloquent pieces of short prose.
- Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist.
- They also appear, imbued with human attributes, in myths and fables, making them key agents in the teaching of indigenous manners and codes of behavior.
- Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure.
- By placing extreme emphasis on the moral of each tale, stories such as the tale of Sukanya and Sunisa and the Aesop's fables seek to foster a particular code of behavior and attitudes in the children of Thai immigrants.
- Some things, it seems, never change for the entrepreneur who appears to relish his role in a strange high-tech version of that old fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
- The book is an anthology of moral fables told by mystics such as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: an interesting idea for a collection.
- The Bible, in keeping with other ancient Near Eastern cultures, includes a book of proverbs, and in the Book of Kings we read of the parable of the trees who gathered to elect a king - a natural rather than an animal fable.
- It's an odd but satisfying little fable about loss and loneliness.
- Children are irresistibly drawn to stories, and we use them to instill all the most important ideas about the human community, its daily dangers and rules, plus moral fables about how to succeed and be happy.
- This lesson through gods and legends is a fable for adults regarding faith and truth in oneself.
- This reminds me of the moral from an Aesop fable about a scorpion that gets a ride across a river on the back of a frog, but stings the frog to death before they get to the other side.
- Buddha Stories is a collection of animal fables that teach the moral principles of Buddhism.
- These fables are clearly stories because they not only lay out propositions about the world but also meet the narrative requirement of storytelling - moralising closure.
- Children were once told fairytales, myths, legends and fables because they had a meaning, a moral or a special psychological relevance.
- One animal in these fables is as clever as the fox, wise as the owl, and diplomatic as the rabbit.
Synonyms
moral tale, parable, apologue, allegory, bestiary
1. 1.1 A supernatural story incorporating elements of myth and legend.
  神奇的故事
  he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable
  Example sentencesExamples
  . Her online papers on fables and myths of the mobile telecom industry are fascinating, and not least because of her creative approach to ethnographic writing.
  This is not a thriller nor a horror story but a fable; despite some of its 20th century trappings, it exists in the world of the Brothers Grimm, one remove from any identifiable time or place.
  In this fable peopled with a fantastic cast of royalty, servants and talking rodents, Despereaux falls in love with a human princess and sets out to save her from danger.
  As feminist fable, the film is tart, evocative, intelligent.
  Here's a story - a fable, really - of a noble company and its difficult encounters with a fickle, fast-moving world.
  A similar loss (a mother lost) brings a little boy into the care of his distant uncle in Seth's film fable Passage to Ottawa: a coming of age film with a great performance by the young leading character.
  Patience, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 1998, is a wry modern fable loosely inspired by the Book of Job.
  The only British actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year is luminous and touching in Jim Sheridan's immigrant fable.
  But what these two mean to each other far transcends any conventional love story-or any sentimental fable of an attachment between two lost souls.
  The novel could be a kind of myth or fable of the afterlife for the 20th century.
  His stories were enigmatic fables set in the past, and could be understood as veiled political criticism.
  Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable.
  The story lays out a fable of the American Dream lost.
  It is apt that Virgo frames his story like a fable, as all melodrama has its origins in morality plays and/or folk tales.
  It's meant as a fable, with elements of parody and literary criticism thrown in by the author to keep everybody guessing.
  The characters in my fable are modern-day versions of Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz.
  Wings Of Desire, his poetic 1987 fable about guardian angels watching over Berlin, remains one of the most successful European productions in cinema history.
  However, no fable or legend was nearly as fantastic as the one told by the stranger who fell from the sky.
  This is not a Hollywood rag to riches fable; it's a real story about a real man.
  By comparison, Phil Alden Robinson's Field Of Dreams is a far more stirring yet gentle sporting fable, a hymn to self-belief that continues to inspire.
  Synonyms
  myth, legend, saga, epic, folk tale, folk story, traditional story, tale, story, fairy tale, narrative, romance
  folklore, lore, mythology, fantasy, oral history, tradition, folk tradition, old wives' tales
  technical mythos, mythus
  informal yarn
2. 1.2mass noun Myth and legend.
  神话；传说
  the unnatural monsters of fable
  神话中的奇异怪兽。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps it's a little too oversimplified - but isn't that the heart of fable and myth… a simple story with a deeper message?
  Wherever you go in Western France you follow in the footsteps of history, shadowed by myth and legend, with fable and fairy tale snapping at your heels.
  Synonyms
  myth, legend, fairy tale, romance
3. 1.3 A false statement or belief.
  谎言，无稽之谈
  believers accused the cosmologists of inventing fables on the birth of the universe
  Example sentencesExamples
  I really don't know anything about The Beach Boys other than the fables and tired myths that surround their bandleader.
  The personal fable reflects the mistaken belief that one's feelings and experiences are uniquely different from those of others.
  Such convincing will be difficult; the poor have always been told precisely that fable.
  ‘That's another fable they've come up with,’ corrected Kuklinski.
  Then came the latest of the many myths that constitute the fable of the modern American presidency.
  Synonyms
  falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, concoction, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story

verb ˈfeɪb(ə)lˈfeɪbəl

[no object]archaic

1Tell fictitious tales.
〈古〉虚构，捏造，杜撰
I do not dream nor fable
我既不痴心妄想，也不胡编乱造。
Example sentencesExamples
- The wealth of entrepreneurs and capitalists is, whatever the anticapitalistic demagogues may fable, so much inferior to that of kings and princes that they cannot indulge in such luxurious construction.
- For a ‘tale, taken from… facts,’ Castle Rackrent's fabling and didacticism are remarkably insistent and cohesive.
- Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to it.
1. 1.1with object Invent (an incident, person, or story)
  虚构（事件，人物，故事）
  men soon fabled up their Histories into Miracle and Wonder
  Example sentencesExamples
  No, not for those reasons, though he was certain she'd be fabled in those areas as well, but for something even greater about her.
  I went to the fabled Bunny Deli - fabled by me, at least; I've put it in many things I've written.
  Many claim a Scottish born fashion photographer is fabled in his field for taking pictures of celebrities.
  Soon our valley in Somerset was fabled as a kind of nymph-strewn Arcadia.
  The story may be fabled but the lessons to be learned from Wotan's casual flings are utterly human.

Derivatives

fabler

noun ˈfeɪb(ə)ləˈfeɪb(ə)lər

With less than a billion of his books in print worldwide, Jay Singh is perhaps the most sardonic, perplexing and insightful fabler of our day.
Example sentencesExamples
- On hillsides overlooking marble white temples, great Greek and the Roman fablers awed their audiences with tales of warriors of battles past and mighty gods of legend who walk amongst us.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French fable (noun), from Latin fabula 'story', from fari 'speak'.

Rhymes

Abel, able, Babel, cable, enable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable, table

Definition of fable in US English:

fable

nounˈfeɪbəlˈfābəl

1A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
寓言
Example sentencesExamples
- It's an odd but satisfying little fable about loss and loneliness.
- Buddha Stories is a collection of animal fables that teach the moral principles of Buddhism.
- Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure.
- Children are irresistibly drawn to stories, and we use them to instill all the most important ideas about the human community, its daily dangers and rules, plus moral fables about how to succeed and be happy.
- This lesson through gods and legends is a fable for adults regarding faith and truth in oneself.
- Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist.
- The Bible, in keeping with other ancient Near Eastern cultures, includes a book of proverbs, and in the Book of Kings we read of the parable of the trees who gathered to elect a king - a natural rather than an animal fable.
- One animal in these fables is as clever as the fox, wise as the owl, and diplomatic as the rabbit.
- Children were once told fairytales, myths, legends and fables because they had a meaning, a moral or a special psychological relevance.
- They also appear, imbued with human attributes, in myths and fables, making them key agents in the teaching of indigenous manners and codes of behavior.
- In the 6th century BCE the Greek author Aesop wrote his timeless fables - short narratives in which animals are the central characters and the aim is to convey a moral message.
- Some things, it seems, never change for the entrepreneur who appears to relish his role in a strange high-tech version of that old fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
- The book is an anthology of moral fables told by mystics such as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: an interesting idea for a collection.
- The Nun's Priest tells one of the best tales, a beast fable with a moral lesson.
- However even if we doubt the validity of the morals proposed, crude fables frequently remain eloquent pieces of short prose.
- In The Phaedrus Plato recounts a fable whose moral is the bad effects of writing, a moral deriving from the choice he makes in thinking to resolve the dilemma that writing poses.
- By placing extreme emphasis on the moral of each tale, stories such as the tale of Sukanya and Sunisa and the Aesop's fables seek to foster a particular code of behavior and attitudes in the children of Thai immigrants.
- The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures.
- These fables are clearly stories because they not only lay out propositions about the world but also meet the narrative requirement of storytelling - moralising closure.
- This reminds me of the moral from an Aesop fable about a scorpion that gets a ride across a river on the back of a frog, but stings the frog to death before they get to the other side.
Synonyms
moral tale, parable, apologue, allegory, bestiary
1. 1.1 A story, typically a supernatural one incorporating elements of myth and legend.
  神奇的故事
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is not a thriller nor a horror story but a fable; despite some of its 20th century trappings, it exists in the world of the Brothers Grimm, one remove from any identifiable time or place.
  Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable.
  The story lays out a fable of the American Dream lost.
  In this fable peopled with a fantastic cast of royalty, servants and talking rodents, Despereaux falls in love with a human princess and sets out to save her from danger.
  However, no fable or legend was nearly as fantastic as the one told by the stranger who fell from the sky.
  But what these two mean to each other far transcends any conventional love story-or any sentimental fable of an attachment between two lost souls.
  A similar loss (a mother lost) brings a little boy into the care of his distant uncle in Seth's film fable Passage to Ottawa: a coming of age film with a great performance by the young leading character.
  Patience, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 1998, is a wry modern fable loosely inspired by the Book of Job.
  By comparison, Phil Alden Robinson's Field Of Dreams is a far more stirring yet gentle sporting fable, a hymn to self-belief that continues to inspire.
  It is apt that Virgo frames his story like a fable, as all melodrama has its origins in morality plays and/or folk tales.
  Here's a story - a fable, really - of a noble company and its difficult encounters with a fickle, fast-moving world.
  His stories were enigmatic fables set in the past, and could be understood as veiled political criticism.
  It's meant as a fable, with elements of parody and literary criticism thrown in by the author to keep everybody guessing.
  Wings Of Desire, his poetic 1987 fable about guardian angels watching over Berlin, remains one of the most successful European productions in cinema history.
  The characters in my fable are modern-day versions of Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz.
  As feminist fable, the film is tart, evocative, intelligent.
  . Her online papers on fables and myths of the mobile telecom industry are fascinating, and not least because of her creative approach to ethnographic writing.
  The novel could be a kind of myth or fable of the afterlife for the 20th century.
  This is not a Hollywood rag to riches fable; it's a real story about a real man.
  The only British actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year is luminous and touching in Jim Sheridan's immigrant fable.
  Synonyms
  myth, legend, saga, epic, folk tale, folk story, traditional story, tale, story, fairy tale, narrative, romance
2. 1.2 Myth and legend.
  神话；传说
  the unnatural monsters of fable
  神话中的奇异怪兽。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps it's a little too oversimplified - but isn't that the heart of fable and myth… a simple story with a deeper message?
  Wherever you go in Western France you follow in the footsteps of history, shadowed by myth and legend, with fable and fairy tale snapping at your heels.
  Synonyms
  myth, legend, fairy tale, romance
3. 1.3 A false statement or belief.
  谎言，无稽之谈
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘That's another fable they've come up with,’ corrected Kuklinski.
  The personal fable reflects the mistaken belief that one's feelings and experiences are uniquely different from those of others.
  Such convincing will be difficult; the poor have always been told precisely that fable.
  I really don't know anything about The Beach Boys other than the fables and tired myths that surround their bandleader.
  Then came the latest of the many myths that constitute the fable of the modern American presidency.
  Synonyms
  falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, concoction, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story

verbˈfeɪbəlˈfābəl

[no object]archaic

1Tell fictitious tales.
〈古〉虚构，捏造，杜撰
I do not dream nor fable
我既不痴心妄想，也不胡编乱造。
Example sentencesExamples
- For a ‘tale, taken from… facts,’ Castle Rackrent's fabling and didacticism are remarkably insistent and cohesive.
- The wealth of entrepreneurs and capitalists is, whatever the anticapitalistic demagogues may fable, so much inferior to that of kings and princes that they cannot indulge in such luxurious construction.
- Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to it.
1. 1.1with object Fabricate or invent (an incident, person, or story).
  虚构（事件，人物，故事）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The story may be fabled but the lessons to be learned from Wotan's casual flings are utterly human.
  Many claim a Scottish born fashion photographer is fabled in his field for taking pictures of celebrities.
  I went to the fabled Bunny Deli - fabled by me, at least; I've put it in many things I've written.
  No, not for those reasons, though he was certain she'd be fabled in those areas as well, but for something even greater about her.
  Soon our valley in Somerset was fabled as a kind of nymph-strewn Arcadia.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French fable (noun), from Latin fabula ‘story’, from fari ‘speak’.

单词	fable
释义	Definition of fable in English: fable noun ˈfeɪb(ə)lˈfeɪbəl 1A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. 寓言 the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox Example sentencesExamples The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures. In the 6th century BCE the Greek author Aesop wrote his timeless fables - short narratives in which animals are the central characters and the aim is to convey a moral message. In The Phaedrus Plato recounts a fable whose moral is the bad effects of writing, a moral deriving from the choice he makes in thinking to resolve the dilemma that writing poses. The Nun's Priest tells one of the best tales, a beast fable with a moral lesson. However even if we doubt the validity of the morals proposed, crude fables frequently remain eloquent pieces of short prose. Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist. They also appear, imbued with human attributes, in myths and fables, making them key agents in the teaching of indigenous manners and codes of behavior. Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure. By placing extreme emphasis on the moral of each tale, stories such as the tale of Sukanya and Sunisa and the Aesop's fables seek to foster a particular code of behavior and attitudes in the children of Thai immigrants. Some things, it seems, never change for the entrepreneur who appears to relish his role in a strange high-tech version of that old fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The book is an anthology of moral fables told by mystics such as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: an interesting idea for a collection. The Bible, in keeping with other ancient Near Eastern cultures, includes a book of proverbs, and in the Book of Kings we read of the parable of the trees who gathered to elect a king - a natural rather than an animal fable. It's an odd but satisfying little fable about loss and loneliness. Children are irresistibly drawn to stories, and we use them to instill all the most important ideas about the human community, its daily dangers and rules, plus moral fables about how to succeed and be happy. This lesson through gods and legends is a fable for adults regarding faith and truth in oneself. This reminds me of the moral from an Aesop fable about a scorpion that gets a ride across a river on the back of a frog, but stings the frog to death before they get to the other side. Buddha Stories is a collection of animal fables that teach the moral principles of Buddhism. These fables are clearly stories because they not only lay out propositions about the world but also meet the narrative requirement of storytelling - moralising closure. Children were once told fairytales, myths, legends and fables because they had a meaning, a moral or a special psychological relevance. One animal in these fables is as clever as the fox, wise as the owl, and diplomatic as the rabbit. Synonyms moral tale, parable, apologue, allegory, bestiary 1.1 A supernatural story incorporating elements of myth and legend. 神奇的故事 he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable Example sentencesExamples . Her online papers on fables and myths of the mobile telecom industry are fascinating, and not least because of her creative approach to ethnographic writing. This is not a thriller nor a horror story but a fable; despite some of its 20th century trappings, it exists in the world of the Brothers Grimm, one remove from any identifiable time or place. In this fable peopled with a fantastic cast of royalty, servants and talking rodents, Despereaux falls in love with a human princess and sets out to save her from danger. As feminist fable, the film is tart, evocative, intelligent. Here's a story - a fable, really - of a noble company and its difficult encounters with a fickle, fast-moving world. A similar loss (a mother lost) brings a little boy into the care of his distant uncle in Seth's film fable Passage to Ottawa: a coming of age film with a great performance by the young leading character. Patience, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 1998, is a wry modern fable loosely inspired by the Book of Job. The only British actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year is luminous and touching in Jim Sheridan's immigrant fable. But what these two mean to each other far transcends any conventional love story-or any sentimental fable of an attachment between two lost souls. The novel could be a kind of myth or fable of the afterlife for the 20th century. His stories were enigmatic fables set in the past, and could be understood as veiled political criticism. Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable. The story lays out a fable of the American Dream lost. It is apt that Virgo frames his story like a fable, as all melodrama has its origins in morality plays and/or folk tales. It's meant as a fable, with elements of parody and literary criticism thrown in by the author to keep everybody guessing. The characters in my fable are modern-day versions of Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz. Wings Of Desire, his poetic 1987 fable about guardian angels watching over Berlin, remains one of the most successful European productions in cinema history. However, no fable or legend was nearly as fantastic as the one told by the stranger who fell from the sky. This is not a Hollywood rag to riches fable; it's a real story about a real man. By comparison, Phil Alden Robinson's Field Of Dreams is a far more stirring yet gentle sporting fable, a hymn to self-belief that continues to inspire. Synonyms myth, legend, saga, epic, folk tale, folk story, traditional story, tale, story, fairy tale, narrative, romance folklore, lore, mythology, fantasy, oral history, tradition, folk tradition, old wives' tales technical mythos, mythus informal yarn 1.2mass noun Myth and legend. 神话；传说 the unnatural monsters of fable 神话中的奇异怪兽。 Example sentencesExamples Perhaps it's a little too oversimplified - but isn't that the heart of fable and myth… a simple story with a deeper message? Wherever you go in Western France you follow in the footsteps of history, shadowed by myth and legend, with fable and fairy tale snapping at your heels. Synonyms myth, legend, fairy tale, romance 1.3 A false statement or belief. 谎言，无稽之谈 believers accused the cosmologists of inventing fables on the birth of the universe Example sentencesExamples I really don't know anything about The Beach Boys other than the fables and tired myths that surround their bandleader. The personal fable reflects the mistaken belief that one's feelings and experiences are uniquely different from those of others. Such convincing will be difficult; the poor have always been told precisely that fable. ‘That's another fable they've come up with,’ corrected Kuklinski. Then came the latest of the many myths that constitute the fable of the modern American presidency. Synonyms falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, concoction, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story verb ˈfeɪb(ə)lˈfeɪbəl [no object]archaic 1Tell fictitious tales. 〈古〉虚构，捏造，杜撰 I do not dream nor fable 我既不痴心妄想，也不胡编乱造。 Example sentencesExamples The wealth of entrepreneurs and capitalists is, whatever the anticapitalistic demagogues may fable, so much inferior to that of kings and princes that they cannot indulge in such luxurious construction. For a ‘tale, taken from… facts,’ Castle Rackrent's fabling and didacticism are remarkably insistent and cohesive. Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to it. 1.1with object Invent (an incident, person, or story) 虚构（事件，人物，故事） men soon fabled up their Histories into Miracle and Wonder Example sentencesExamples No, not for those reasons, though he was certain she'd be fabled in those areas as well, but for something even greater about her. I went to the fabled Bunny Deli - fabled by me, at least; I've put it in many things I've written. Many claim a Scottish born fashion photographer is fabled in his field for taking pictures of celebrities. Soon our valley in Somerset was fabled as a kind of nymph-strewn Arcadia. The story may be fabled but the lessons to be learned from Wotan's casual flings are utterly human. Derivatives fabler noun ˈfeɪb(ə)ləˈfeɪb(ə)lər With less than a billion of his books in print worldwide, Jay Singh is perhaps the most sardonic, perplexing and insightful fabler of our day. Example sentencesExamples On hillsides overlooking marble white temples, great Greek and the Roman fablers awed their audiences with tales of warriors of battles past and mighty gods of legend who walk amongst us. Origin Middle English: from Old French fable (noun), from Latin fabula 'story', from fari 'speak'. Rhymes Abel, able, Babel, cable, enable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable, table Definition of fable in US English: fable nounˈfeɪbəlˈfābəl 1A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. 寓言 Example sentencesExamples It's an odd but satisfying little fable about loss and loneliness. Buddha Stories is a collection of animal fables that teach the moral principles of Buddhism. Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure. Children are irresistibly drawn to stories, and we use them to instill all the most important ideas about the human community, its daily dangers and rules, plus moral fables about how to succeed and be happy. This lesson through gods and legends is a fable for adults regarding faith and truth in oneself. Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist. The Bible, in keeping with other ancient Near Eastern cultures, includes a book of proverbs, and in the Book of Kings we read of the parable of the trees who gathered to elect a king - a natural rather than an animal fable. One animal in these fables is as clever as the fox, wise as the owl, and diplomatic as the rabbit. Children were once told fairytales, myths, legends and fables because they had a meaning, a moral or a special psychological relevance. They also appear, imbued with human attributes, in myths and fables, making them key agents in the teaching of indigenous manners and codes of behavior. In the 6th century BCE the Greek author Aesop wrote his timeless fables - short narratives in which animals are the central characters and the aim is to convey a moral message. Some things, it seems, never change for the entrepreneur who appears to relish his role in a strange high-tech version of that old fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The book is an anthology of moral fables told by mystics such as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: an interesting idea for a collection. The Nun's Priest tells one of the best tales, a beast fable with a moral lesson. However even if we doubt the validity of the morals proposed, crude fables frequently remain eloquent pieces of short prose. In The Phaedrus Plato recounts a fable whose moral is the bad effects of writing, a moral deriving from the choice he makes in thinking to resolve the dilemma that writing poses. By placing extreme emphasis on the moral of each tale, stories such as the tale of Sukanya and Sunisa and the Aesop's fables seek to foster a particular code of behavior and attitudes in the children of Thai immigrants. The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures. These fables are clearly stories because they not only lay out propositions about the world but also meet the narrative requirement of storytelling - moralising closure. This reminds me of the moral from an Aesop fable about a scorpion that gets a ride across a river on the back of a frog, but stings the frog to death before they get to the other side. Synonyms moral tale, parable, apologue, allegory, bestiary 1.1 A story, typically a supernatural one incorporating elements of myth and legend. 神奇的故事 Example sentencesExamples This is not a thriller nor a horror story but a fable; despite some of its 20th century trappings, it exists in the world of the Brothers Grimm, one remove from any identifiable time or place. Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable. The story lays out a fable of the American Dream lost. In this fable peopled with a fantastic cast of royalty, servants and talking rodents, Despereaux falls in love with a human princess and sets out to save her from danger. However, no fable or legend was nearly as fantastic as the one told by the stranger who fell from the sky. But what these two mean to each other far transcends any conventional love story-or any sentimental fable of an attachment between two lost souls. A similar loss (a mother lost) brings a little boy into the care of his distant uncle in Seth's film fable Passage to Ottawa: a coming of age film with a great performance by the young leading character. Patience, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 1998, is a wry modern fable loosely inspired by the Book of Job. By comparison, Phil Alden Robinson's Field Of Dreams is a far more stirring yet gentle sporting fable, a hymn to self-belief that continues to inspire. It is apt that Virgo frames his story like a fable, as all melodrama has its origins in morality plays and/or folk tales. Here's a story - a fable, really - of a noble company and its difficult encounters with a fickle, fast-moving world. His stories were enigmatic fables set in the past, and could be understood as veiled political criticism. It's meant as a fable, with elements of parody and literary criticism thrown in by the author to keep everybody guessing. Wings Of Desire, his poetic 1987 fable about guardian angels watching over Berlin, remains one of the most successful European productions in cinema history. The characters in my fable are modern-day versions of Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz. As feminist fable, the film is tart, evocative, intelligent. . Her online papers on fables and myths of the mobile telecom industry are fascinating, and not least because of her creative approach to ethnographic writing. The novel could be a kind of myth or fable of the afterlife for the 20th century. This is not a Hollywood rag to riches fable; it's a real story about a real man. The only British actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year is luminous and touching in Jim Sheridan's immigrant fable. Synonyms myth, legend, saga, epic, folk tale, folk story, traditional story, tale, story, fairy tale, narrative, romance 1.2 Myth and legend. 神话；传说 the unnatural monsters of fable 神话中的奇异怪兽。 Example sentencesExamples Perhaps it's a little too oversimplified - but isn't that the heart of fable and myth… a simple story with a deeper message? Wherever you go in Western France you follow in the footsteps of history, shadowed by myth and legend, with fable and fairy tale snapping at your heels. Synonyms myth, legend, fairy tale, romance 1.3 A false statement or belief. 谎言，无稽之谈 Example sentencesExamples ‘That's another fable they've come up with,’ corrected Kuklinski. The personal fable reflects the mistaken belief that one's feelings and experiences are uniquely different from those of others. Such convincing will be difficult; the poor have always been told precisely that fable. I really don't know anything about The Beach Boys other than the fables and tired myths that surround their bandleader. Then came the latest of the many myths that constitute the fable of the modern American presidency. Synonyms falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, concoction, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story verbˈfeɪbəlˈfābəl [no object]archaic 1Tell fictitious tales. 〈古〉虚构，捏造，杜撰 I do not dream nor fable 我既不痴心妄想，也不胡编乱造。 Example sentencesExamples For a ‘tale, taken from… facts,’ Castle Rackrent's fabling and didacticism are remarkably insistent and cohesive. The wealth of entrepreneurs and capitalists is, whatever the anticapitalistic demagogues may fable, so much inferior to that of kings and princes that they cannot indulge in such luxurious construction. Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to it. 1.1with object Fabricate or invent (an incident, person, or story). 虚构（事件，人物，故事） Example sentencesExamples The story may be fabled but the lessons to be learned from Wotan's casual flings are utterly human. Many claim a Scottish born fashion photographer is fabled in his field for taking pictures of celebrities. I went to the fabled Bunny Deli - fabled by me, at least; I've put it in many things I've written. No, not for those reasons, though he was certain she'd be fabled in those areas as well, but for something even greater about her. Soon our valley in Somerset was fabled as a kind of nymph-strewn Arcadia. Origin Middle English: from Old French fable (noun), from Latin fabula ‘story’, from fari ‘speak’.
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