tall tale

tall tale什么意思,tall tale翻译

基本解释

n.: 怪谈
网络: 荒诞不经的故事；神兵总动员；吹牛

英汉解释

• 怪谈

同义词

n.cock-and-bull storytaleyarntall storyfairy tale

例句

• The essence of the tall tale was that it was told.

  重要的是，这样的离奇故事到处都在讲。

• the end of this lesson, you will be able to tell a tall tale.

  本课结束，你将能够会吹牛。

• The tall tale , which had been popular in America since Colonial days , spread west to reach inspired heights of mendacity .

  荒诞不经的故事，在殖民地时期即已风行美国，一路向西延展，到达了虚伪的极度。

• sort with its gorgeous metaphors, became in its burlesque moments a variant of the tall tale.

  政治演说，尤其是充满华丽比喻，宣扬国威的那一种，发展到可笑的程度，就成了荒诞故事的变体。

• These realistic details set us up for the tall-tale exaggeration of the weather being so hot that corn started to pop.

  这些现实的细节设置为我们高大的童话夸张的天气如此炎热，玉米开始流行。

• For those of you who love a tall tale, the list of genetic variations that determine human height has just experienced a growth spurt.

  你们当中那些喜欢天方夜谭的人，决定人类身高的一系列遗传性变异刚刚经历一次高发期。

• The woman"s story of survival after going 20 days without food sounds like a tall tale to me.

  那个女人在没有食物的情况下存活20天的故事在我看来令人难以置信。

• But tall-tale-tellers have never hesitated to rewrite Lincoln"s biography.

  但是叙述故事的人从未犹豫重写林肯的传记。

• Today we tell a traditional American story called a "tall tale. "

  今天，我们讲一个传统的美国故事称为“高的故事。”

• So, as the song goes, do short people really have no reason to live, or is that a tall tale?

  因此，正如那首歌里唱到的，个子矮的人是不是真的没有活下去的理由了？还是这真的夸大其词了？