英汉词典

tale 基本解释

• n. 故事；传说；叙述；流言蜚语
• n. (Tale)人名；(塞)塔莱

tale 词态变化

tale 中文词源

来自古英语 talu,计算，数数，故事，寓言，来自 Proto-Germanic*talo,计算，告知，来自 PIE*del, 瞄准，计算，思考，词源同 tell,teller,talk.

tale 英文词源

tale

tale: [OE] A tale is etymologically something that is ‘told’. The word is descended from a prehistoric Germanic *talō, a derivative of the base *tal-, which also produced English talk and tell. Of its Germanic relatives, German zahl, Dutch getal, Swedish antal, and Danish tal all mean ‘number’, reflecting a secondary meaning ‘reckoning, enumeration’ which once existed in English, perhaps as an introduction from Old Norse (it survives in the related teller ‘counter of votes’ and all told).
=> talk, tell

tale (n.)

Old English talu "series, calculation," also "story, tale, statement, deposition, narrative, fable, accusation, action of telling," from Proto-Germanic *talo (cognates: Dutch taal "speech, language," Danish tale "speech, talk, discourse," German Erzählung "story," Gothic talzjan "to teach"), from PIE root *del- (2) "to recount, count." The secondary Modern English sense of "number, numerical reckoning" (c. 1200) probably was the primary one in Germanic; see tell (v.), teller and Old Frisian tale, Middle Dutch tal, Old Saxon tala, Danish tal, Old High German zala, German Zahl "number."

The ground sense of the Modern English word in its main meaning, then, might have been "an account of things in their due order." Related to talk (v.) and tell (v.). Meaning "things divulged that were given secretly, gossip" is from mid-14c.; first record of talebearer "tattletale" is late 15c.

tale 词组搭配

tale 英文释义

1. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

"his narrative was interesting"

"Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

2. a trivial lie;

"he told a fib about eating his spinach"

"how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

tale 同义词解析

novel, romance, fiction, story, fable, tale

这些名词均含"小说，故事"之意。

novel： 指任何有情节、人物、对白，虚构的长篇散文体故事。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

tale 双语例句

1. The story ascends from a gothic tragedy to a miraculous fairy-tale.

故事从一个哥特式悲剧升华为神奇的童话。

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2. Roy told his sorrowful tale with simple words anybody could understand.

罗伊用简单的、人人都能理解的语言讲述了他那个伤感的故事。

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3. He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.

他说那是一个非常曲折复杂的故事。

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4. She was like a princess in a fairy tale.

她就像童话里的公主。

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5. a cautionary tale about the problems of buying a computer

有关购买计算机时可能遇到种种问题的告诫

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tale 实用场景例句

Dickens' ‘A Tale of Two Cities ’

狄更斯的《双城记》

牛津词典

a fairy/moral/romantic, etc. tale

童话、寓言、爱情故事等

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I love listening to his tales of life at sea.

我喜欢听他讲述他的海上生活。

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I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.

我听说有人在那栋房子里见到过鬼。

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The team's tale of woe continued on Saturday (= they lost another match) .

上星期六这支队又遭败绩。

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Her experiences provide a cautionary tale (= a warning) for us all.

她的经历成了我们大家的前车之鉴。

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...a collection of stories, poems and folk tales...

由短篇故事、诗歌和传说汇成的作品集

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Episodes 1 and 2 of Tales of the City will be shown together on Tuesday.

《城市故事》的第一、二集将于星期二两集连播。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The media have been filled with tales of horror and loss resulting from Monday's earthquake.

媒体上尽是星期一发生的地震所带来的恐惧和损失的报道。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a property analyst, full of cheery tales about soaring share prices and new capital pouring into property companies.

总是兴高采烈地描述着股票价格飙升和新资本源源不断注入房地产公司的房地产分析师

柯林斯高阶英语词典

You lived to tell the tale this time but who knows how far you can push your luck.

你这次算是逃过了一劫，不过谁知道你的运气还会持续多久呢？

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I hesitated, not wanting to tell tales about my colleague.

我犹豫了，不想说同事的坏话。

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I'll be revenged on the whole lot of you for this.

这个仇我是要报的,你们一个也逃不了.

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They can't work off that tale on us.

他们那套鬼话骗不了我们.

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What he said sounded like a fairy tale.

他说的听上去简直像一篇神话.

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There is no denying his tale.

他说的话是无可否认的.

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It is nothing but a traveller's tale.

这只不过是海外奇谈.

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A pat tale aroused a big laugh.

一个贴切适时的故事引起一阵大笑.

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The children listened enthralled as the storyteller unfolded her tale.

讲故事的人一步步展开故事情节,孩子们都听得入迷了.

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Thereby hangs a tale.

其中有点蹊跷[必有原因].

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A long tale gives a child fidgets.

太长的故事会使小孩子烦躁不安.

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Do you expect me to credit that absurd tale?

你想我会相信那个荒谬绝伦的谎言 吗 ?

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He wove a fascinating tale of knights in shining armour.

他编了一个穿着明亮盔甲的骑士的迷人故事.

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Each of the survivors had a terrible tale to tell.

每一个幸存者都有一番恐怖的经历可讲.

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Is there anybody who can tell a fairy tale?

有人能讲童话故事 吗 ?

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It's a tragic tale.

这是一个凄惨的故事.

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She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.

她听够了那些关于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事.

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a cautionary tale about the problems of buying a computer

有关购买计算机时可能遇到种种问题的告诫

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Jan Roberts weaves a compelling tale which traps a young woman in a world run by the Mafia.

简·罗伯茨编了一个引人入胜的故事，诱骗一位年轻女性进入了黑手党的地盘。

柯林斯例句

Roy told his sorrowful tale with simple words anybody could understand.

罗伊用简单的、人人都能理解的语言讲述了他那个伤感的故事。

柯林斯例句