• n. 寓言；無稽之談
• vi. 編寓言；虛構
• vt. 煞有介事地講述；虛構
• n. (Fable)人名；(法)法布勒；(英)費布爾

來自PIE*bha, 說，詞源同phone, fame. 指說的故事，寓言等。

fable

fable: [13] The Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’ has produced a wide range of English words, including (via Germanic) ban and (via Latin fārī ‘speak’) affable, confess, fairy, fame, fate, ineffable, infant, nefarious, and profess. Fable is a member of this latter group; it comes via Old French fable from Latin fābula ‘narrative, story’ (source also of English fabulous [15]), which was a derivative of fārī. Fib [17] is probably short for an earlier fible-fable ‘nonsense’, a fanciful reduplication of fable.
=> affable, ban, confess, fabulous, fairy, fame, fate, fib, ineffable, infant, nefarious, profess, prophet

fable (n.)

c. 1300, "falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense," from Old French fable "story, fable, tale; drama, play, fiction; lie, falsehood" (12c.), from Latin fabula "story, story with a lesson, tale, narrative, account; the common talk, news," literally "that which is told," from fari "speak, tell," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)). Restricted sense of "animal story" (early 14c.) comes from Aesop. In modern folklore terms, defined as "a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"].

1. The old fable continues to echo down the centuries.

這則古老的寓言流傳了數個世紀。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Is reincarnation fact or fable?

轉世輪回是確有其事還是無稽之談？

來自柯林斯例句

3. a land rich in fable

寓言之鄉(xiāng)

來自《權威詞典》

4. The course is about fable and legend in modern literature.

這門課專講現代文學中的神話和傳奇作品.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. This fable was written after the manner of Aesop.

這部寓言是仿照《伊索寓言》寫成的.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》