英 [ˈfæbjəlɪst] 美 [ˈfæbjəlɪst]
n. 寓言家;说谎者
fabulist /ˈfæbjʊlɪst/
名词 a person who invents or recounts fables 寓言家
a person who tells or invents fables
... confabulate 闲谈,讨论 fabulist 寓言家,说谎者 fabulous 神话式的;惊人的,难以置信的 ...
...工作者的身份,使笔者无法窥探故事背后更深远的意境;又也许是笔者没能及时找来一本斯蒂芬·格拉斯的近作《说谎者》(The Fabulist)去虔诚拜读。
格拉斯后来将这段经历写成了小说《捏造者》(Fabulist)。看完之后只能惊叹,这个年轻人说谎的功力炉火纯青,说谎时面不改色,一脸无辜,似连自己都相信所讲的是真话;谎话逐个被揭穿时...
... fabler n编寓言者;虚构情节者 fabulist n寓言家,撒谎者 fabulosity n寓言性质;虚构性;无稽;惊人 ...
寓言家;说谎者
Honesty is the best policy. -aesop, ancient Greek fabulist.
诚实是最好的策略。—伊索,古希腊寓言作家。
No road of flowers leads to glory. -la Fontaine, French fabulist.
没有一条通往荣誉的道路是铺满鲜花的。—拉封丹,法国寓言作家。
So is Julian Fellowes a fantasist or a fabulist?
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Balian depicted him as a fabulist, a liar who made up extravagant stories about being a famous film director, the heir to a South African fortune and a descendant of British royalty.
And "Dreamchild" (1985), with Ian Holm as Lewis Carroll and Coral Browne as an aged Alice Liddell, jumps from reality to memory to fantasy and back again as it charts the odd and unsettling, yet somehow life-affirming, relationship between a repressed but brilliant fabulist and his juvenile muse.
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