TALE

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Traducere în limba română

tale substantiv

1. poveste, istorisire, povestire, basm; descriere, expunere amănunţită, născocire;

to tell the tale of one's adventures a povesti / a istorisi / a face o expunere amănunţită despre aventurile cuiva;

a stirring tale o poveste / o istorisire emoţionantă / mişcătoare;

fairy tale a) basm (cu zâne); b) poveste de necrezut;

idle tales fleacuri, baliverne, poveşti născocite;

that tells its own tale este evident, nu mai e nevoie de comentariu;

(fig.) his tale is told s-a sfârşit cu el, povestea lui s-a terminat;

l've heard that tale before am mai auzit povestea asta.

2. nuvelă, poveste literară, fabulă, legendă, basm;

a book of tales o carte cu basme / cu povestiri;

The Canterbury Tales Povestirile din Canterbury (de Chaucer).

3. zvon, denunţ, pâră, clevetire, bârfeală, minciună;

to tell tales (out of school) a) a dezvălui un secret; b) a umbla cu zvonuri, a bârfi, a trăncăni, a cleveti, a spune lucruri răutăcioase pe seama cuiva.

4. (înv.) număr, socoteală, cantitate;

the tale of dead and wounded numărul celor morţi şi răniţi;

the tale is complete numărul e complet, sunt toţi prezenţi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I will proceed with my tale.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Very well, he answered quietly: and indeed my head is otherwise occupied than with him: I have my tale to finish.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You see, Richard, your tale has gone home.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I don't tell tales," replied Laurie, with his 'high and mighty' air, as Jo called a certain expression which he occasionally wore.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, Now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd’s fine fat sheep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

So long ago did he live that only the old men remember his name, his name and the tale, which they got from the old men before them, and which the old men to come will tell to their children and their children's children down to the end of time.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

But Maria Silva read a different tale in the hollow cheeks and the burning eyes, and she noted the changes in them from day to day, by them following the ebb and flow of his fortunes.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

What tale do you like best to hear?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It would of course instantly strike him that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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