汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 民間故事
民間故事 (民间故事)
folk story / folktale
民间文学的一种。大致可分为幻想故事、动物故事、生活故事、民间寓言、民间笑话五类。内容多赞美勤劳勇敢、忠贞诚实、助人为乐的品质,嘲讽自私自利、阿谀奉承、仗势欺人的行为。往往富于幻想色彩。语言生动、幽默,具有一定的教育意义。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

如下是一个民间故事

There was a folk story as follows.

浪漫主义者认为民间故事是人们灵魂的一种反映。

Romantics looked at folk tales as sort of a reflection of the soul of the people.

民间故事的采辑是件很有意义的事情。

It is a meaningful thing to collect, and edit folk stories.

《螺中美妇》型民间故事是广泛流传于中国、朝鲜半岛、日本的具有1700余年书面记录历史的颇有国际性的民间故事类型。

The type of"beautiful woman in the spiral shell"folk tales are wide-spread in China, Korea Peninsula and Japan and it has more than 1700 years of written form record history.

这就是民间故事能让我们深入了解其文化渊源的原因所在。

That is why folktales give us many insights into the cultures from which they spring.

狐狸的害人精形象在传闻和民间故事中遭到严重的夸大。

The image of the fox as a pest is grossly exaggerated in anecdote and folklore.

《五卷书》是印度著名的寓言故事集,《一千零一夜》则是阿拉伯的民间故事集。

Pancatantra is a famous collection of Indian fables, while The Arabian Nights is a collection of Arabian folk tales.

当代社会生活的故事为主,同时兼收并蓄各类流传的民间故事和经典性的外国故事。

The contemporary social life story is given priority to, also of the folk stories circulating monitoring and classic foreign story.

中国是《螺中美妇》型民间故事的发源地,该故事最早记载于西晋的《发蒙记》。

China is the mother country of the above mentioned folk tales which was jot down in the book "enlighten biography" in West Jin.

民间故事像八仙过海,麒麟提出一子如梅和鸳鸯在水中嬉戏,喜鹊也最喜爱的主题等吉祥图案。

Folk stories like the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Kylin presenting a Son and other auspicious patterns such as magpie on plum and mandarin ducks playing on the water were also favorite topics.