fable

• n. 寓言；无稽之谈
• vi. 编寓言；虚构
• vt. 煞有介事地讲述；虚构
• n. (Fable)人名；(法)法布勒；(英)费布尔

词态变化

中文词源

来自PIE*bha, 说，词源同phone, fame. 指说的故事，寓言等。

英文词源

fable

fable: [13] The Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’ has produced a wide range of English words, including (via Germanic) ban and (via Latin fārī ‘speak’) affable, confess, fairy, fame, fate, ineffable, infant, nefarious, and profess. Fable is a member of this latter group; it comes via Old French fable from Latin fābula ‘narrative, story’ (source also of English fabulous [15]), which was a derivative of fārī. Fib [17] is probably short for an earlier fible-fable ‘nonsense’, a fanciful reduplication of fable.
=> affable, ban, confess, fabulous, fairy, fame, fate, fib, ineffable, infant, nefarious, profess, prophet

fable (n.)

c. 1300, "falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense," from Old French fable "story, fable, tale; drama, play, fiction; lie, falsehood" (12c.), from Latin fabula "story, story with a lesson, tale, narrative, account; the common talk, news," literally "that which is told," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)). Restricted sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"].

双语例句

1. The old fable continues to echo down the centuries.

这则古老的寓言流传了数个世纪。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Is reincarnation fact or fable?

转世轮回是确有其事还是无稽之谈？

来自柯林斯例句

3. a land rich in fable

寓言之乡

来自《权威词典》

4. The course is about fable and legend in modern literature.

这门课专讲现代文学中的神话和传奇作品.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. This fable was written after the manner of Aesop.

这部寓言是仿照《伊索寓言》写成的.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》