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fable

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📖 中文释义

  1. n. 寓言, 神话, 谎言
  2. vi. 虚构, 作寓言

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

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💬 双语例句

  1. "Drawing dragons and dotting in the eyes" is a fable.

    画龙点睛是一则寓言故事。

  2. But China is treading carefully enough that it can continue to advance its goals, without spooking its intended quarry. The American academic John Garver depicted it best using a Chinese fable: “A frog in a pot of lukewarm water feels quite comfortable and safe.

    印度当然怀疑中国的行为。 但中国小心翼翼,以使其能够继续推进其目标而不打草惊蛇。 美国学者约翰·贾沃尔(John Garver)用中国寓言很好地描述了这一局面 : “ 青蛙在温吞水中感觉舒适又安全。 他没有注意到水温正在缓慢上升,直到被杀死并彻底煮熟 。 ”

  3. Those who have used the prevailing economic fable about the 1970s to predict upward outbreaks of inflation in the 1990s, the 2000s, and now the 2010s have all been proven wrong. Why, then, does the narrative still have such a hold on us today?

    关于20世纪70年代的经济学无稽之谈大行其道,有人用它来预测20世纪90年代、21世纪初以及如今的21世纪10年代的物价大爆发,无一例外以错误告终。 那么,为何这一叙事至今仍有如此大的市场?

🔵 同义词

🔗 常用搭配

fable a frog
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. a short moral story (often with animal characters)