Tra từ tale - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

tale [tale tales] BrE [teɪl] NAmE [teɪl] noun
1. a story created using the imagination, especially one that is full of action and adventure
•Dickens' ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
•a fairy/moral/romantic, etc. tale
•His latest book is a delightful children's tale about talking animals.
see also ↑folk tale
2. an exciting spoken description of an event, which may not be completely true
•I love listening to his tales of life at sea.
•I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.
•The team's tale of woe continued on Saturday (= they lost another match).
•Her experiences provide a cautionary tale (= a warning) for us all.
see also ↑telltale, see an old wives' tale at ↑old, live, etc. to tell the taletell a different story/taletell its own tale/storytell tales at ↑tell

Word Origin:
Old English talu ‘telling, something told’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch taal ‘speech’ and German Zahl ‘number’, also to ↑tell.

Example Bank:
•She regaled us with tales of her wild youth.
•She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
•Winning the French Open was a fairy-tale end to her career.
•a dark tale of sexual obsession
•a tale about a hungry snake
•a tale set in 19th-century Moscow
•a tall tale that would fool no one
•an epic tale of courage and heroism
•tales of adventure
•the curious tale of the man who sold his hair
•the rags-to-riches tale of an orphan who becomes a star
•the sorry tale of his marriage breakdown
•Dickens' ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
•Her experiences provide a cautionary tale for us all.
•His latest book is a delightful children's tale about talking animals.
•I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.
•It's a moral tale about a baker and a shoemaker.
•The team's tale of woe continued on Saturday.