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单词 tale
释义
tale
noun[C]
uk
/teɪl/us
/teɪl/
B2
astory,especiallyone that might beinventedordifficulttobelieve:
（尤指包含离奇内容的）故事，不实之词
Hetoldsomefascinatingtales about hislifeinIndia.他讲了他在印度生活的一些奇闻轶事。
She told me/invented/concocteda tale aboutmissingthebustoexplainherlateness.为了解释迟到的原因，她向我讲了／编造了一通没赶上公共汽车的鬼话。
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Idiom

tale of woe
(Definition oftalefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

tale| American Dictionary

tale
noun[C]
us
/teɪl/
astoryorreport,esp. one that isinventedordifficulttobelieve:
afairytale
Hislifestorymakes aprettyremarkabletale.
(Definition oftalefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftale

tale
In the pages of women's journals, these tragic tales were placed along with explicit advice against immoral public behavior.
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At the same time, trivial anecdotes and tales of curiosities from abroad were also included.
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Other tales in the same collection feature chained madmen (pp. 360 - 61).
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Historians have concentrated on the latter - official and government reports, chronicles and travellers' tales and, in the late nineteenth century, ethnographic studies.
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Most accounts of pre-puberty marriage written by women, however, open with tales of childish pleasure at the pomp and grandeur of the wedding ceremony.
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The medieval 'gestour' was one who told tales, romances and the like.
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Developing autonomy for tellers, tales, and telling in family narrative events.
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Developing autonomy for tellers, tales and telling in family narrative events.
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The tales also show how authors labor for their own recognition by presenting themselves as necessary advocates, companions, and accompanists of the objects.
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The narrative logic of both genres demanded tragic love tales.
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No tales are told out of school, here.
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The different cautionary tales show how the authors labor for the users' understanding and recognition of the code's epistemic dimension.
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In all the other tales, we are told explicitly why the ghosts return and what they desire.
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Such tales may well refer to concrete historical events.
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Many of the old people will tell tales only in the evening; it is not right, not lucky, to do so during daylight.
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Collocationswithtale

tale

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classic tale
It has been aclassictaleof order, counter-order and disorder.
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epic tale
Widescreen means a big film, anepictalein this case anepictaleof human endurance.
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harrowing tale
It is aharrowingtale.
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