tale
US: /ˈteɪɫ/
UK: /tˈeɪl/
UK: /tˈeɪl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
tale /teil/
- danh từ
- truyện, truyện ngắn
- tale of adventure: truyện phiêu lưu mạo hiểm
- chuyện bịa đặt, chuyện nói xấu
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) số lượng
- to tell tales
- mách lẻo
- that tells its own tale
- điều ấy đã rõ rồi, miễn phê bình
- twice-told tale
- chuyện cũ rích
- I want to tell my own tale
- tôi muốn nói lên quan điểm của tôi về vấn đề đó
- truyện, truyện ngắn
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 an imaginative story, especially one that is full of action and adventure: Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities' + a fairy / moral / romantic tale + His latest book is a delightful children's tale about talking animals.
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2 an exciting spoken description of an event, which may not be completely true: I love listening to his tales of life at sea. + I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house. + The team's tale of woe continued on Saturday (= they lost another match). + Her experiences provide a cautionary tale (= a warning) for us all.
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Idioms see OLD, TELL
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 story, narrative, report, account, record, chronicle, history, narration, recital, anecdote:
We were brought up on tales of the supernatural. Her tale of what happened does not agree with the facts.
2 falsehood, lie, fiction, fib, fabrication, untruth, falsification, exaggeration, Colloq tall tale or story, (cock-and-bull) story, US fish story:
He told some tale about having been captured by urban guerrillas.
3 rumour, gossip, slander, allegation, tittle-tattle, libel, story, US chiefly naval scuttlebutt:
I have been hearing tales about wild parties at the neighbours' again.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
long, rambling | amazing, bizarre, curious, extraordinary, fantastic, magical, marvellous, strange | awful, dire, sad, sorry, terrible
the sorry tale of his marriage breakdown
| dreary
She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
| chilling, gruesome, hair-raising, horror, macabre | mysterious, spooky | funny, humorous, witty | foolish | lurid, spicy, tawdry | fanciful, far-fetched, incredible, tall, unlikely
a tall tale that would fool no one
| old wives' | rags-to-riches
the rags-to-riches tale of an orphan who becomes a star
| epic, heroic
an epic tale of courage and heroism
| cautionary, moral, morality | folk, traditional | childhood | fairy
(often figurative) Winning the French Open was a fairy-tale end to her career.
| romantic
VERB + TALE
narrate, regale sb with, relate, tell (sb)
She regaled us with tales of her wild youth.
| invent, make up, spin
TALE + VERB
begin | unfold | concern sb/sth, involve sb/sth | be set in …
a tale set in 19th-century Moscow
| be based on sth
PREP.
~ about
a tale about a hungry snake
| ~ of
tales of adventure the curious tale of the man who sold his hair
PHRASES
a tale of woe
(= about failure, bad luck, etc.),
(have) a tale to tell
Each of the survivors had a terrible tale to tell.
| tell tales
(= to say things about sb that are untrue or that they would prefer to be secret)
Concise English dictionary
talesteɪl
noun
+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
+a trivial lie
