tale
tale
noun
a tale of a tub
noun
- a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted
故事
■a lie
谎言 - (archaic)a number or total
(古)总数
an exact tale of the dead bodies.
死尸的确切数目。
a tale of a tub
- (archaic)an apocryphal story
(古)荒诞的故事
- 见 tell
- Old English talu 'telling, something told', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch taal 'speech' and German Zahl 'number', also to tell. Sense 2 is probably from Old Norse
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