apologue
英 ['æpəlɒg]
美
- n. 寓言；道德故事
英英释义
- 1. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
英文词源
- apologue (n.)
- "moral fable," 1550s, from French apologue, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos, from apo- "off, away from" (see apo-) + logos "speech" (see lecture (n.)). Literally, "(that which comes) from a speech."