英语释义

1. a usually imaginative narrative of an event story

2. an intentionally untrue report falsehood
always preferred the tale to the truth
— Sir Winston Churchill

3. a series of events or facts told or presented account

4. a report of a private or confidential matter
dead men tell no tales

5. a libelous report or piece of gossip

6. count, tally

7. total

8. discourse, talk

9. a story about imaginary events an exciting or dramatic story

10. a story about someone's actual experiences

11. an exciting story that may not be completely true

12. something told
He told a tale of woe.

13. a story about an imaginary event
fairy tales

14. lie entry 3

15. a piece of harmful gossip

片语

tell tales泄露秘密；揭人隐私；搬弄是非

Tales Runner超级跑跑

twisted talesTwisted Tales is an Australian television Anthology and Mystery drama which screened on the Nine Network in 1996. Each episode was narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the follow-up series, Two Twisted, in 2006.

Fruity Tales水果传说

canterbury tales坎特伯雷故事集（英国诗人乔叟着）

Windy Talesis a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G, about a group of people who can control the wind.

Strange TalesStrange Tales was a pulp magazine which published seven issues between 1931 and 1933. The publisher was Clayton Magazines; the editor was Harry Bates, who also edited Clayton's Astounding Storie

Leatherstocking TalesThe Leatherstocking Tales is a series of novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, each featuring the main hero Natty Bumppo, known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," 'The Pathfinder", and "the trapper" and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer," "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye".

Hairy Tales毛茸茸的故事

Vogue Tales时尚传说

英汉例句

• perhaps these tales do actually teach us a lesson or two after all.

  或许这些童话终究还是教给了我们一两个教训。

• his witty and often macabre tales won him critical acclaim and he was a successful short-story writer.

  他的机智和恐怖的故事常常为他赢得好评，他是一个成功的短篇小说作家。

• he exclaims he is proud of his children , and he adores his grandchildren; he holds them one by one on his knee, plays with them and tells them folk tales whenever they come to visit.

  他为他的孩子们感到骄傲，他非常喜欢他的孙子们；每当孙子们来拜访时，他就一个接一个地把他们抱到自己大腿上，陪他们玩耍，给他们讲民间故事。

• the prophets of doom back up their figures with tales of woe.

  悲观的预言家用悲观的故事支持他们的数据。

• the animals hated moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in sugarcandy mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place.

  动物们都讨厌摩西，因为他只讲故事不劳作。但还是有一些动物相信糖果山的传说，这使猪不得不非常辛苦的说服他们并不存在这样一个地方。

• indeed, jonah was rescued by a whale when he was thrown overboard, and there have been tales of dolphins assisting swimmers in distress or shielding them from circling sharks.

  其实，约拿被丢出船外就是一头鲸鱼解救的，还有各种海豚援助遇险游泳者或在鲨鱼包围游泳者时保护他们的故事。

• some scholars believe the story is a misreading of tales in which flaming pig carcasses were catapulted over the city walls at invading soldiers.

  一些学者认为这个故事是对传说的误读，实际上应当是麦加拉人将着火的野猪尸体越过城墻弹射向入侵者。

• we took the best literary tales from the book, and reproduce them below.

  我们从次书中摘下最好的故事，并把它们改造成下面的样子。

• i enjoyed listening to old liu’s moral tales and i enjoyed the look and the feel of the jades which held those stories.

  我很喜欢听老刘讲那些很有寓意的故事，喜欢那些很有故事的玉器，以及它们的样子和手感。

• the tales illustrate the frustrations that many chemists feel for their fickle field, particularly when experiments fail to work or instead produce inconsistent results.

  这些故事说明了许多化学家在其变化无常的领域所感受到的挫折，特别是在实验失败或产生不一致的结果的时候。

• father spends his anger like a profligate; just a few hard strokes to endure, and by evening he’ll be consoling us with tall tales and oranges that fit perfectly in our palms.

  父亲发泄起怒火来就像个败家子儿，只需要忍受寥寥几下狠抽，到了晚上，他就会用荒诞不经的故事和正好能握在掌心里的橙子来安慰我们。

• once on board, they regaled the crew with tales of famine in their villages.

  一旦登上船只，海盗就向船员讲述发生在他们村庄的饑荒故事。

• i thought of the personal tales each one could tell.

  我认为他们每个人都有一个私人的故事可说。

• nothing can be more charming than the, tales of his mechanical contrivances when he was a boy. there are his telescopes and his optical experiments.

  没有什么能比他在还是一个小男孩时所做的机械发明这个传说更引人入胜的了，那里他创造了自己的望远镜和光学实验。

• now as regards the end of the life of cyrus there are many tales told, but this which i have related is to my mind the most worthy of belief.

  不过，现在我要按照我的誓言，让你把血喝个够。”关于居鲁士的最终结局还有许多故事，但我上面讲的是我认为最可信的说法。

• i couldn't tell whether they were bosnian, croat or serb – but i was sure they would all have their own tales to tell.

  我分辨不出他们谁是波西尼亚人，谁是克罗地亚人或塞族人，但我肯定他们每个人都有自己的故事。

• his books, which include awakenings and the man who mistook his wife for a hat, introduced readers to indelible tales of patients with almost outlandishly peculiar brain disorders.

  他的书，包括《觉醒》、《因一顶帽子误解妻子的男人》，介绍给读者一些让人难忘的故事，与大脑秩序混乱、怪异的病人有关。

• tales of greed and fraud during the boom years abound.

  在经济景气年份，充斥着贪婪和欺骗的故事。

相似词

canard(Canard)人名；(法)卡纳尔

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）

whisper耳语（声）；轻柔的声音；谣传；（诗、文）飒飒声；蛛丝马迹，暗示