fabulist
英 ['fæbjʊlɪst]
- n. 寓言家;说谎者
英英释义
- 1. a person who tells or invents fables
考试真题
- This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- "This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships," he says.
2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
实用场景例句
- This is Aesop, the fabulist ( 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships,” He says.
- 这是寓言家伊索的观点,他经常从动物及动物之间的关系的角度讲述那些迷人的小故事。”Soupios 说。
16年6月四级真题(第二套)| 阅读
英文词源
- fabulist (n.)
- 1590s, "inventor or writer of fables," from French fabuliste, from Latin fabula "story, tale" (see fable (n.)). The earlier word in English was fabler (late 14c.); the Latin term was fabulator.