| 释义 |
tale/teil/n. 1 a narrative or story, esp. fictitious and imaginatively treated (尤指虚构或想像的)叙述；故事 2 a report of an alleged fact, often malicious or in breach of confidence (常怀有恶意的)坏话，谣言；流言蜚语 all sorts of tales will get about 各种谣言都会传开的 3 archaic or literary a number or total [古义] [文学用语]计数；总数 the tale is complete 数目全了 □ tale of a tub an idle fiction 荒诞的故事；无稽之谈 [Old English talu from Germanic: related to TELL1] |