词汇搭配
词组短语
fairy tale神话故事，童话；谎言
folk tale民间故事
tell the tale编讲悲惨的往事
nursery tale童话
tell a tale ◎揭露内情 , ◎说明情况
tall tale n. 吹牛，说大话；夸张的故事，荒诞的故事
old wives' tale无稽之谈；愚蠢的迷信（尤指老妇人所持的）
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同近义词辨析
story, tale, fiction, fable, romance, novel
这组词都有“小说，故事”的意思，其区别是：
story指篇幅较短，常包含一系列情节或事件，口述或书写成文的故事。
tale常可与story换用，指以事实为中心作叙述的故事，也指古代流传下来的传说故事或神话故事。
fiction指部分或全部虚构的短篇、中篇、长篇小说，也指传奇故事，是小说的总称。
fable指短小而寓有教育意义的虚构故事。故事的主人公多为拟人化的动物或非动物之类。也作传说解。
romance系novel早期的代用词，泛指具有强烈神话和传奇色彩的故事，现指爱情故事。
novel指任何有情节、人物、对白，虚构的长篇散文体故事。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
- Their love story sounds like a fairy tale.
他们的爱情故事听起来像童话。 - This is a tale that wring the heart.
这是个令人心痛的故事。 - We listened to their tales about life in the Sahara Desert.
我们听他们讲述撒哈拉沙漠的生活经历。 - We laugh over this tale, but it's becoming almost as true of people.
我们笑着谈论此则故事，但对人类来说，情形也差不多一样。 - According to the tale, the tears of shark-people can be turned into pearls.
传说中鲛人泪可以化为珍珠。 - The Monkey King' is an extraordinary tale with a strange twist at the end.
美猴王是个离奇的传说，结尾有意想不到的波折。 - It's an ancient tale which appears in various guises in several languages.
那是一个以几种语言叙述的古老的故事。
权威例句
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