fairy tale
參見：fairytale 和 fairy-tale
英語
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其他寫法
[编辑]- (過時) fairy-tale, fairytale, (罕用) faerie tale
詞源
[编辑]仿譯自法語 conte de fées，由法國的作家多尔諾瓦夫人在17世紀末造出。
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[编辑]名詞
[编辑]fairy tale (複數 fairy tales)
- 童話故事
- I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
- 我小时候最喜欢读童话故事了。
- 1717, Mrs Holt, A Fairy Tale Inscrib'd, to the Honourable Mrs. W----- With other poems [献给尊敬的W夫人的童话故事及其他诗歌], London: R. Burleigh:
- 1828，Thomas Keightley，The Fairy Mythology，第II卷，London：William Harrison Ainsworth，122頁：
- The Wife of Bathes Tale is evidently a Fairy-tale. It thus commences: In olde dayes of the king Artour, / Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, / All was this land fulfilled of faerie.
- 《浴女传》显然是一个童话故事。它是这样开头的：在古老的亚瑟王时代，/布列塔尼人对他无比崇敬，/这片土地上住满了仙子。
- 1828年 4月12日，The Hobart Town Courier，第4頁，第4列：
- The Arabian Nights rehears'd in bed! / The Fairy Tales in school-time read.
- 在床上排练《一千零一夜》！/在学校里读童话故事。
- (不可數) 童話（文學體裁）
- 1819年 2月27日，The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser，第4頁，第3列：
- Their dresses were rich, and when they came bounding forward, their shapes of silver tissue, with their feathered diadems and faces of animated beauty, they might be imagined into scarcely less than the creations of fairy tale.
- 她们的裙子华丽无比，当她们轻快地向前走来时，她们银丝织成的身影，头戴羽毛冠冕，面容生动美丽，简直就像童话里的人物一样。
- 1989，Marilyn Berg Callander，Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale，Ann Arbor：UMI Research Press，27頁：
- Mr. Shimerda kneels in front of the tree in prayer; a praying figure under a magic tree is a common one in fairy tale.
- 希梅尔达先生跪在树前祈祷；童话中，在魔法树下祈祷的人物很常见。
- (比喻義) 謊言；虛假信息
- He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.
- 他又在骗我们这个软件有多么棒了。
- 1825年 5月5日，The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser，第2頁，第4列：
- If emigrants will submit to the "fairy tales" of Mr. Thomas, and fall in with his suggestions, they must patiently submit to the disagreeable consequences.
- 如果移民们接受托马斯先生的“童话故事”，并采纳他的建议，他们就必须耐心承受由此带来的不愉快后果。
- 1968，Joseph Campbell，The Hero with a Thousand Faces，2nd版，London：Fontana Press，1993 出版，28頁：
- Comedy as satire is acceptable, as fun it is a pleasant haven of escape, but the fairy tale of happiness ever after cannot be taken seriously; it belongs to the never-never land of childhood, which is protected from the realities that will become terribly known soon enough[.]
- 喜剧作为讽刺作品是可以接受的，作为一种娱乐方式，它是一种令人愉悦的逃避现实的避风港，但是从此幸福快乐的“童话故事”不能认真对待；它属于童年的梦幻世界，在那里，人们可以免受很快就会可怕起來的现实的侵扰。
- (比喻義) 极少数人能达到的令人愉快的理想状态；天堂；仙境
- I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe.
- 自从遇见乔，我就一直生活在童话世界里。
