tale是什么意思？

This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.

Nearly every business has a sad tale to tell.

The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.

Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like Earth.