fable
英 ['fe?b(?)l]
美['febl]
- n. 寓言；無稽之談
- vi. 編寓言；虛構
- vt. 煞有介事地講述；虛構
- n. (Fable)人名；(法)法布勒；(英)費布爾
CET4TEM4考研TOEFL低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?fables;
中文詞源
fable 寓言
來自PIE*bha, 說，詞源同phone, fame. 指說的故事，寓言等。
英文詞源
- fable
- fable: [13] The Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’ has produced a wide range of English words, including (via Germanic) ban and (via Latin fārī ‘speak’) affable, confess, fairy, fame, fate, ineffable, infant, nefarious, and profess. Fable is a member of this latter group; it comes via Old French fable from Latin fābula ‘narrative, story’ (source also of English fabulous [15]), which was a derivative of fārī. Fib [17] is probably short for an earlier fible-fable ‘nonsense’, a fanciful reduplication of fable.
=> affable, ban, confess, fabulous, fairy, fame, fate, fib, ineffable, infant, nefarious, profess, prophet - fable (n.)
- c. 1300, "falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense," from Old French fable "story, fable, tale; drama, play, fiction; lie, falsehood" (12c.), from Latin fabula "story, story with a lesson, tale, narrative, account; the common talk, news," literally "that which is told," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)). Restricted sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"].
雙語例句
- 1. The old fable continues to echo down the centuries.
- 這則古老的寓言流傳了數個世紀。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Is reincarnation fact or fable?
- 轉世輪回是確有其事還是無稽之談？
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. a land rich in fable
- 寓言之鄉
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The course is about fable and legend in modern literature.
- 這門課專講現代文學中的神話和傳奇作品.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. This fable was written after the manner of Aesop.
- 這部寓言是仿照《伊索寓言》寫成的.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》