英语释义

1. characteristic of or suitable to a fairy tale especially marked by seemingly unreal beauty, perfection, luck, or happiness
led a fairy-tale life a store clerk's fairy-tale romance

2. a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (such as fairies, wizards, and goblins)
enjoyed the fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" — called also fairy story

3. a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending
those balletic fairy tales in which a new corps member steps in for an injured principal at the last minute and delivers a splendid performance
— Margaret Willis

4. a made-up story usually designed to mislead
an old-fashioned fairy tale depicting revolutionists as demigods
— Jonathan Zimmerman

5. a simple children's story about magical creatures

6. a false story that is meant to trick people

片语

T Fairy-Tales独立流行

Fairy y Tales趣味首饰小店

Fairy-tales and童话传说

fairy story神话；谎言

autumn fairy-tales秋天童话

myth神话；虚构的人，虚构的事

Ghost Stories and Fairy-Tales唱片名

Japanese fairy-tales波斯语

Fairy-tales and Fables童话传说

英汉例句

• although this man never actually visited new york, his fame as a writer of fairy tales and children’s stories has spread far beyond his homeland.

  虽然这位男士从来没有去过纽约，他作为童话及儿童故事作家的名望，却超越故土、远扬他乡。

• huh? fairy tales come to life in belgium and france.

  哈？童话在比利时和法国变成现实。

• fairy tales come to life in belgium and france.

  童话在比利时和法国变成现实。

• in the classical fairy tales of greece, myrtle「s evergreen leaves, elegant and beautiful white flowers and their charming fragrance are seen as symbols of beauty and youth.

  希腊古典神话故事里桃金娘常绿的树叶、优美的白色花朵以及令人愉悦的芳香，正象征着美丽和年轻。

• people gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

  我们总是要给事物命名，这样才能说他们的故事，该死的关于孩子得救的童话故事。

• the most wonderful fairy tales grow out of that which is reality; were that not the case, you know, my magnificent elderbush could not have grown out of the tea-pot.

  可是现在它来了；最奇异的童话是从真实的生活里产生出来的，否则我的美丽的接骨木树丛就不会从茶壶里冒出来了。

• it is very comforting in times of stress to go back to the fairy tales we heard as children but it doesn’t make them less false.

  在压力很大时，重温我们孩提时代看过的童话是很舒服的事，但这并不能使他们变得更真实多少。

• in the time before books, children learned fairy tales by listening to them over and over again.

  在有书籍之前的时代里，孩子们通过一再地倾听童话故事而得知它们。

• so suspend your imagination for a moment, and look at the following fairy tales as a hard-core scientist might.

  所以暂时停下你的想象，以一个核心科学家的角度审视下面几个童话故事。

• while it, too, is about the intrusion of fairy tales into ordinary life, the show does so in a way that’s far more ambitious—and kitschy.

  虽然它也是关于童话侵入日常生活，但这部剧被用了一种更具野心而娴熟的方式打造。

• magic】in fairy tales witches often use magic to change persons into animals or birds.

  在神话故事中，巫婆常使用魔术将人变成动物或鸟。

• truth is some of your problems may go away once you have met all of your 「if only’s」 and 「better when’s」 but it won’t make the perfect life that fairy tales are made of.

  问题点在于许多问题会在你实现所有「真希望」和「会更好」之后得到解决，但是那绝对不是童话故事中制造的完美生活。

• another year closes in. still, there is the reassuring uplift of fairy tales like hans christian andersen」s duckling turned swan, with its metamorphosis from plain to princely.

  幸好，还有安徒生虚构的丑小鸭变成白天鹅的童话来作为精神鼓励，平凡与高贵原来只有一线之隔。

• i have never heard of these fairy tales before.

  我以前从来没有听过这些童话故事。

• still, there is the reassuring uplift of fairy tales like hans christian andersen's duckling turned swan, with its metamorphosis from plain to princely.

  令人欣慰的是，安徒生童话里的丑小鸭终于变成了白天鹅，为平凡而高贵的心带来一丝希望。

• the man reading the times at the bus stop remarks on a story③that begins with the words 「once upon a time」, the classic opening for fairy tales in english.

  在汽车站旁读《纽约时报》的一位男士正评论一条新闻，该新闻以「从前啊」几个字开头，这是英语童话故事的典型开头。

• children like to listen to fairy tales before they go to bed.

  孩子们喜欢在上床睡觉前听听童话故事。

• the owner sees making cup cakes as an art form, bringing fairy tales and magical dreams to her customers old and new young and old.

  店主把制作杯型蛋糕当成一种艺术形式，将童话故事和神奇梦境带给她所有新的，老的，年轻的和年长的顾客们。

• not all fairy tales are the same.

  并非所有的童话故事都是一样的。

相似词

fable编寓言；虚构

fabrication制造，建造；装配；伪造物

falsehood说谎；假话；不真实；错误的信仰

falsity虚伪；错误；谎言；不真实

fib撒小谎

lie(Lie)人名；(罗、挪、瑞典)利；(中)李(普通话·威妥玛)

mendacity谎言；虚伪；撒谎癖

prevarication搪塞；支吾

story故事；小说；描述；新闻报道；来历；假话；层；一种测量单位（1 story 等于 3.3 米）

tale(Tale)人名；(塞)塔莱

untruth虚假，不真实；谎言

whopper特大的东西；谎言，弥天大谎

相反词

truth真理；事实；诚实；实质