0 a short story that tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this type -- 寓言；寓言故事
The first volume contained mostly stories and fables about animals, the scientific conversations were in the third volume, and the moral tales in the fourth.
No longer a fable of antique curiosity, the riddle expressed the urgent need for reform.
The doubling of props was further matched by the characters' frequent transitions between the worlds of domesticity and fable.
Stars used to be grouped by fable and narrative while later they were grouped by spectral class.
The performative impact of fables derives from the fact that until recently they were part of the school child's curriculum and were learned by rote.
And he gave us no thanks for the favors and the many thoughts, because, full of himself, he hawked a fable.
He rather considers the fable as a sort of moral example.
What unifies the action of the fable so that it forms a whole is the moral sentence it offers to intuition.
