tale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 故事， 传说，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, but it's only the simple tale of an old soldier who saw the French enter Moscow.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight.
-- What, then is the full tale of those whom Hector son of Priam killed in the hour of triumph which Jove then vouch-safed him?
-- Then Juno told her a lying tale and said, 'I want you to endow me with some of those fascinating charms, the spells of which bring all things mortal and immortal to your feet.
-- Then Juno told him a lying tale and said, 'I am going to the world's end, to visit Oceanus, from whom all we gods proceed, and mother Tethys; they received me into their house, took care of me, and brought me up.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That had much to say and little to tell, beyond the confirmation of the evening before, and a very badly written account of another remarkable tale from Port Burdock.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale for this, and it may be a little over,' said Mowgli, and he bounded away.
-- When he got to the village he told a tale of magic and enchantment and sorcery that made the priest look very grave.
-- Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul's again.
-- But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib's hammock with Petersen Sahib's shooting-coat un-der his head, and a glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and wound up with: 'Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room.
-- I whistled, and Vixen ran up to me, muddy all over, and licked my nose, and told me a long tale about hunting for me all through the camp.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any oth-er district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
-- Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections; nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors.
-- * The scene of this tale was in the 42d degree of latitude, where the twilight is never of long continuation.
-- Since the period of our tale the active spirit of the country has surrounded it with a belt of rich and thriving settlements, though none but the hunt- er or the savage is ever known even now to penetrate its wild recesses.
-- Duncan began to breathe more freely, believing that the weight of his exami-nation was past; and, as he had already prepared a simple and probable tale to support his pretended occupation, his hopes of ultimate success grew brighter.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.
-- Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each story-teller to dress up his tale with a little be-coming fiction, and, in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every exploit.
-- The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the Horse-man returning from his foray into Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to get up behind him; how they galloped over bush and brake, over hill and swamp, until they reached the bridge; when the Horseman suddenly turned into a skel-eton, threw old Brouwer into the brook, and sprang away over the tree-tops with a clap of thunder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fountains of her heart were opened; the child, overpowered by the weight of her sorrows and anxieties, by the first confidence she had ever shown, and the sympathy with which her little tale had been received, hid her face in the arms of her helpless friend, and burst into a passion of tears.
-- CHAPTER 33As the course of this tale requires that we should become acquainted, somewhere hereabouts, with a few particulars connected with the domestic economy of Mr Sampson Brass, and as a more convenient place than the present is not likely to occur for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate than ever Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo and his familiar travelled through that pleasant region in company, alights with him upon the pavement of Bevis Marks.
-- Let not the light scorners of female fascination erect their ears to listen to a new tale of love which shall serve them for a jest; for Miss Brass, however accurately formed to be beloved, was not of the loving kind.
-- Taking that pride in it which men conceive for the wonders of their own little world, he had made its history his study; and many a summer day within its walls, and many a winter's night beside the parsonage fire, had found the bachelor still poring over, and adding to, his goodly store of tale and legend.
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