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Tom enjoyed hearing his mother tell fairy tales.

汤姆很喜欢听他妈妈讲童话故事。

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

“Serendipity” 这个词是由霍勒斯·沃波尔在1854年的一封信中创造出来的，源于一个关于三个王子的故事，这三个王子“总是意外地发现那些他们并没有在寻找的东西。”

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

长期以来，金星一直被认为是一个警世故事，告诉我们在像地球这样的行星上，任何事情都可能出错。

I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.

我听说有人在那栋房子里见到过鬼。

Uncle Tom is telling tales again, which we are accustomed to.

汤姆叔叔又在编故事了，我们都习惯了。

There are some tales about Tina recently.

最近流传着一些关于缇娜的流言。