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词汇 fabulate
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Definition of fabulate in English:

fabulate

verb ˈfabjʊleɪtˈfabyəˌlāt
[no object]
  • Relate invented stories.

    编故事

    we fabulate; we make up a story to cover the facts we can't accept

Derivatives

  • fabulation

  • nounfabjʊˈlɛɪʃ(ə)n
    • Reports on clinical findings are mixtures of facts, fabulations, and fictives so intermingled that one cannot tell where one begins and the other leaves off ’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The lyricism of the writing is, indeed, a source of ‘beauty and magic’ in the book, but balancing this tendency toward fabulation are the detailed depictions of daily life in the 1920s Delta.
      • A sharper editorial overseer would help chisel Randerson's ambitious but oblique fabulations into shape; such an eye might also have caught several typos.
      • Indeed, literature is full of fabulations wherein the world of a rat or dog is opened up magically to our vision.
      • ‘Our panic and our pain are only eased by soothing fabulation; we call it history’.
  • fabulator

  • noun
    • A recurrent feature of fabulators is their tendency to make every lie stand by itself, with little regard to its relationship to other true or false statements they have made or to firmly established external facts.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • How can this guy be such a blatant fabulator and still get even one fourth of the votes that he has?

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin fabulat- 'narrated as a fable', from the verb fabulari, from fabula (see fable).

Definition of fabulate in US English:

fabulate

verbˈfabyəˌlāt
[with object]
  • 1Relate (an event or events) as a fable or story.

    把(事件)当作寓言(或故事)叙述

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When real life is so fabulated, how can writers use straightforward realism?
    • Briony fabulates a story into which the others in the house are grafted; the events of the day are the substance from which she spins her tale.
    1. 1.1no object Relate untrue or invented stories.
      编故事

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin fabulat- ‘narrated as a fable’, from the verb fabulari, from fabula (see fable).

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