1A traditional African folk tale about Anancy the spider, who overcomes others by cunning.
〈西印度〉阿南希的故事（非洲民间传说，讲述蜘蛛阿南希以技巧而非力量战胜别的蜘蛛）
Example sentencesExamples
Only Mike and nancy stories are consistently worth watching for.
So for me, nancy stories have always had a humorous air of winking at the audience, as though the storyteller's saying, ‘we all know people like this, but let's not name any names.’
1.1An elaborate evasive story or lie.
the minister had left the country and so could not give his side of the nancy story
部长已离开了该国，这样就没法就此遁词谈他的看法了。
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‘I do not find it strange that he and his kind will seek to create his own nancy stories.’
Synonyms
lie, fib, falsehood, untruth, fabrication, fiction, piece of fiction
1.2A superstitious belief.
迷信
God is a nancy story, you hear
你听到了，上帝不过是个迷信而已。
Origin
Nancy, shortening of Anancy, from Akan ananse 'spider'.