apologue

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable. countable,uncountable
    — "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.
  2. The use of fable to persuade the audience. countable,rhetoric,uncountable

词形变化

apologues plural

词汇关系

衍生词
apologer apological
相关词
apologetic apology

词源

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue.
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