fable
gb/fˈeɪbəl/ us/fˈeɪbəl/
B1
英语
~ 8300
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名词
B1
entity
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Short moral story, often with animals
A short made-up story that teaches a lesson, often using animals that can talk and think like people.
用法模式：
a fable about [something]
常见错误：
Learners often confuse "fable" with "fairy tale" and "parable". A fable is usually short, has a clear moral, and often uses talking animals. A fairy tale often has magic and fantasy elements and is not always focused on a clear lesson. A parable is similar to a fable but is often connected to religion and usually uses human characters.
近义词
moral tale (Highlights the teaching aspect more directly and can include stories without animals.)
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parable (Often has a religious or spiritual context, while a fable is usually secular and uses animals.)
反义词
true story (Describes an account based on real events, not an invented story created to teach a lesson.)
搭配
Aesop's fables
|animal fable
|children's fable
|write a fable
|classic fable
|moral of the fable
主题
literature
|education
|morality
|arts_entertainment
例句
- As a child, she loved the fable about the tortoise and the hare.
- The teacher used a simple fable to explain why honesty is important.
- In many fables, animals speak and behave like humans to show human strengths and weaknesses.
- He wrote a modern fable about technology and friendship for his literature class.
- The film feels like a dark fable warning us about greed.
学习者例句
- We read a short fable in class today.
- This fable teaches children to be kind.
- In the fable, a small mouse helps a big lion.
- My grandfather told me a fable before bed.
- The fable has a clear lesson at the end.
名词
literary
B2
entity
2
Traditional story not based on fact
An old, famous story that many people know and repeat, but that is not really true history.
用法模式：
the fable of [something]
常见错误：
Learners may think this sense always includes animals and an explicit moral, like the basic sense of "fable". In this literary or cultural use, a fable can be any traditional story or widely repeated narrative about a people or place, even without animal characters or a clear lesson.
近义词
myth (Very close in meaning; "myth" is more common and can also mean a false belief, not just a traditional story.)
反义词
historical fact (Stresses that something is supported by evidence and actually happened, unlike a fable.)
搭配
ancient fable
|founding fable
|national fable
|cultural fable
|the fable of the hero
主题
culture
|history
|society
|arts_entertainment
|religion
例句
- The book challenges the comforting fable of the nation's peaceful past.
- Over time, the general became a figure of fable, larger than life in the public imagination.
- The movie repeats the old fable of the self-made millionaire who starts with nothing.
- He argued that the story of endless economic growth is a dangerous modern fable.
- Tour guides still tell the romantic fable of how the city was founded by star-crossed lovers.
学习者例句
- Many people believe the fable of a perfect golden age in the past.
- The leader became part of the country's fable after the war.
- Some say the island was created by gods, but that is just a fable.
- The author questions the fable of the brave, lonely hero.
- Tourists hear a nice fable about how the bridge was built.
名词
literary
C1
entity
3
Invented story, a lie
A made-up story that is not true but is told as if it were true.
用法模式：
a mere fable
常见错误：
Learners may assume this sense still includes a moral or animal characters. Here, "fable" is used to criticize a story as false or too perfect to be real, often in news, essays, or formal speech.
近义词
fabrication (A formal word that focuses on the deliberate act of creating a false story.)
反义词
truth (Represents what is real and factual, the opposite of an invented story.)
搭配
mere fable
|pure fable
|a convenient fable
|popular fable
|polite fable
主题
truth
|communication
|criticism
|core_vocabulary
例句
- The report shows that the tidy story of a single genius inventor is largely a fable.
- He dismissed the rumor as a comforting fable people tell themselves.
- Her version of events is a polite fable that hides what really happened.
- The idea that success comes overnight is a dangerous fable.
- Historians now see that as a convenient fable created to excuse the company’s actions.
学习者例句
- The story about him saving the company was just a fable.
- Many people still believe this, but scientists say it is a fable.
- The idea that he never made mistakes is a fable.
- They called his excuse a fable and did not trust him.
- She said the news was a fable and asked for proof.
名词
technical
C1
entity
4
The literary genre of fables
A type of story in literature that is always short, not real, and made to teach a clear lesson.
用法模式：
the fable as [a genre]
常见错误：
Learners may not realize that "fable" can mean not just one story, but also the whole type or genre of such stories, especially in academic or literary discussion.
近义词
allegory (A related literary form where the whole story represents something else; not always short or explicitly moral like a fable.)
反义词
realistic fiction (Fiction that aims to represent life as it is, not stylized moral teaching like a fable.)
搭配
the fable as a genre
|study the fable
|classical fable
|modern fable
|the tradition of the fable
主题
literature
|education
|arts_entertainment
例句
- In this course, we will examine the fable as a didactic genre.
- The fable occupies an important place in early children's literature.
- She argues that the modern graphic novel sometimes functions as a kind of fable.
- Critics have noted how the director borrows structures from the fable to shape the film.
- The fable evolved alongside the parable and the fairy tale in European traditions.
学习者例句
- We studied the fable in my literature class.
- The teacher said the fable is an old kind of story genre.
- Some modern books use the form of the fable.
- He wrote his thesis on the fable and the fairy tale.
- The fable is easy to use in classes for young students.
语法
词典原形
fable
IPA
GB/fˈeɪbəl/
US/fˈeɪbəl/
音节与重音
fable （1 个音节）
Stress on 1st syllable (fable)
词形变化
Noun
- Base: fable
- Plural: fable, fables
词族
Forms
fables
noun
Related words
Advanced or less common
fabulist
noun
相关表达
moral of the fable
1/mˈɔɹəl əv ðə fˈeɪbəl/
fixed phrase
Main lesson of a fable
The main lesson or message that the fable wants to teach you.
例句
- The moral of the fable is that slow and steady effort wins in the end.
- Ask the students what they think the moral of the fable is.
- The teacher wrote the moral of the fable on the board after reading it aloud.