人们喜欢讲故事。
Why, will the black footman tell tales?
怎么?黑人随从会搬弄是非吗?
Many tell tales and ancient myths from their faraway homelands.
许多说故事人会叙说祖国的传说及远古神话。
I hesitated, not wanting to tell tales about my colleague.
我犹豫了,不想说同事的坏话。
All we got was what we pinched out of the larder and then you used to go and tell tales to mother.
我们当时能得到的只不过是我们从储藏室偷拿的食品,而你常常去向妈妈告发我们。
Her book is a Mommie Dearest for the age of the memoir, when we tell tales on ourselves instead of our relatives.
她的书是本回忆录,相当于电影里《亲爱妈咪》,讲述的是自己而不是亲戚的故事。
The Boar shall be extolled in the mouths of its peoples, and its deeds will be as meat and drink to those who tell tales.
野猪会被人们口头上赞美,它的事迹会被讲故事者吃和喝。
Urged by the host of the Tabard, who accompanies them, the pilgrims agree to tell tales to amuse the group and to lighten the journey.
在随同前往的塔巴德客店老板的建议下,这群朝圣者达成一致意见,每人轮流讲故事以供娱乐,让大家旅途愉快。
The Merricks took her out of the poorhouse years ago; and if her loyalty would let her, I guess the poor old thing could tell tales that would curdle your blood.
他出来时说,“梅里克家多年前把她从贫民院里接出来;要不是怕坏了主人家的名声,那可怜的人儿讲出来的事儿,我猜,会吓得你灵魂出窍。
When I was a kid, my mother would always tell me bed time fairy tales.
我小的时候,我妈妈总是会给我讲睡前童话故事。
Fairy tales tell the story of good versus evil, and usually have a happy ending.
童话讲述的是善与恶的故事,而且通常都有一个圆满的结局。
I thought of the personal tales each one could tell.
我认为他们每个人都有一个私人的故事可说。
The elderly survivors who gather in Changchun’s Labor Park most days are not eager to tell their tales.
老人们在长春劳动公园聚在一起,这些幸存者不愿说出他们的故事。
He'd show us magic tricks and tell us strange but true tales of gypsy powers.
他为我们表演魔术,向我们讲述有天赋的吉普赛人不为人知的但是绝对真实的故事。
After leaving college my friends could tell you the symbolic meaning behind the Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales, but they couldn't tell you the difference between a balance sheet and income statement.
离开学校后,我的朋友们能说出格林童话背后隐藏的象征意义,却说不出资产负债表和收益表的区别。
And here the polls-to the extent that they can be taken as hard fact-tell a disturbing story, in which no small part of the country has believed in a variety of tales about Barack Obama.
这里,民意测验(能信多少,是多少了),说明了一个问题,国内很多人都开始相信各种关于奥巴马的传说。
They tell bawdy Chaucerian tales, and show their crooked, gappy teeth like horses when they laugh.
她们尽讲些乔叟[13]式的下流故事,露出一口歪牙,活像几匹大笑的老马。
Tell them fairy tales don't always end the way we'd like.
让他们明白,童话的结局并不总是尽如人意。
Your new coworkers' tales will tell you how you should act in those situations.
新同事的故事会告诉你,在这些情况下应该如何表现。
I couldn't tell whether they were Bosnian, Croat or Serb - but I was sure they would all have their own tales to tell.
我分辨不出他们谁是波西·尼亚人,谁是克罗地亚人或塞族人,但我肯定他们每个人都有自己的故事。
Scalia: Some of the Grimm's fairy tales are quite grim, to tell you the truth.
史格里亚:有些格林童话挺可怕,向你道出现实。
Your new coworkers tales will tell you how you should act in those situations.
新同事的故事会告诉你,在这些情况下应该如何表现。
Both books manage to tell their tales of Churchill the adventurer and gambler elegantly.
两本书都精心讲述了丘吉尔身为冒险家和绅士赌徒的故事。
Tell a thousand tales that will astound you.
诉说一千个让你惊奇的故事。
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. ——Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
切斯特顿(英国作家、文学评论家、神学家):童话故事不会告诉孩子龙的存在,可孩子们已经知道了龙的存在。童话故事告诉孩子龙是可以杀死的。
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. ——Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
切斯特顿(英国作家、文学评论家、神学家):童话故事不会告诉孩子龙的存在,可孩子们已经知道了龙的存在。童话故事告诉孩子龙是可以杀死的。
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