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1. Oxford Dictionary

   fable

   • IPA[ˈfeɪbl]

   英式

   • n.
     a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral；a supernatural story incorporating elements of myth and legend
   • v.
     tell fictitious tales；invent (an incident, person, or story)

   • verb: fable, 3rd person present: fables, gerund or present participle: fabling, past tense: fabled, past participle: fabled

   • noun: fable, plural noun: fables

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox 同義詞 moral tale, parable, apologue, allegory, bestiary
   • ▪ a supernatural story incorporating elements of myth and legend he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable 同義詞 myth, legend, saga, epic, folk tale, ... 更多folk story, traditional story, tale, story, fairy tale, narrative, romance, folklore, lore, mythology, fantasy, oral history, tradition, folk tradition, old wives' tales, technicalmythos, mythus, informalyarn
   • ▪ myth and legend the unnatural monsters of fable
   • ▪ a false statement or belief believers accused the cosmologists of inventing fables on the birth of the universe 同義詞 falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, ... 更多trumped-up story, fake news, invention, concoction, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story/tale, cock and bull story, lie, untruth, barefaced lie, (little) white lie, half-truth, exaggeration, prevarication, departure from the truth, alternative fact, yarn, story, red herring, rumour, myth, flight of fancy, figment of the imagination, pretence, pretext, sham, ruse, wile, trickery, stratagem, informaltall story, tall tale, whopper, porky, pork pie, porky pie, humorousterminological inexactitude, vulgar slangbullshit, bulldust

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. archaic tell fictitious tales I do not dream nor fable
   • ▪ archaic invent (an incident, person, or story) men soon fabled up their Histories into Miracle and Wonder