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tall tale的意思

tall tale


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  • n.怪谈
  • 网络荒诞不经的故事;神兵总动员;吹牛

近义词

    n.cock-and-bull story,tale,yarn,tall story,fairy tale

英汉释义

  • n.

    1.怪谈

英英释义

  • n.

    1.something that someone tells you that sounds so exciting, dangerous, unpleasant, etc. that you do not believe it is true. The British word is tall story.

英汉例句

  • 1.The essence of the tall tale was that it was told.

    重要的是,这样的离奇故事到处都在讲。

  • 2.the end of this lesson, you will be able to tell a tall tale.

    本课结束,你将能够会吹牛。

  • 3.The tall tale , which had been popular in America since Colonial days , spread west to reach inspired heights of mendacity .

    荒诞不经的故事,在殖民地时期即已风行美国,一路向西延展,到达了虚伪的极度。

  • 4.sort with its gorgeous metaphors, became in its burlesque moments a variant of the tall tale.

    政治演说,尤其是充满华丽比喻,宣扬国威的那一种,发展到可笑的程度,就成了荒诞故事的变体。

  • 5.These realistic details set us up for the tall-tale exaggeration of the weather being so hot that corn started to pop.

    这些现实的细节设置为我们高大的童话夸张的天气如此炎热,玉米开始流行。

  • 6.For those of you who love a tall tale, the list of genetic variations that determine human height has just experienced a growth spurt.

    你们当中那些喜欢天方夜谭的人,决定人类身高的一系列遗传性变异刚刚经历一次高发期。

  • 7.The woman's story of survival after going 20 days without food sounds like a tall tale to me.

    那个女人在没有食物的情况下存活20天的故事在我看来令人难以置信。

  • 8.But tall-tale-tellers have never hesitated to rewrite Lincoln's biography.

    但是叙述故事的人从未犹豫重写林肯的传记。

  • 9.Today we tell a traditional American story called a "tall tale. "

    今天,我们讲一个传统的美国故事称为“高的故事。”

  • 10.So, as the song goes, do short people really have no reason to live, or is that a tall tale?

    因此,正如那首歌里唱到的,个子矮的人是不是真的没有活下去的理由了?还是这真的夸大其词了?

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