0 a story, especially one that might be invented or difficult to believe -- (尤指包含离奇内容的)故事,不实之词
In the pages of women's journals, these tragic tales were placed along with explicit advice against immoral public behavior.
At the same time, trivial anecdotes and tales of curiosities from abroad were also included.
Other tales in the same collection feature chained madmen (pp. 360 - 61).
Historians have concentrated on the latter - official and government reports, chronicles and travellers' tales and, in the late nineteenth century, ethnographic studies.
Most accounts of pre-puberty marriage written by women, however, open with tales of childish pleasure at the pomp and grandeur of the wedding ceremony.
The medieval 'gestour' was one who told tales, romances and the like.
Developing autonomy for tellers, tales, and telling in family narrative events.
Developing autonomy for tellers, tales and telling in family narrative events.