Some of Aesop's Fables are satires. 《伊索寓言》中有一些是讽刺作品。
I do not dream nor fable. 我既不痴心妄想,也不胡编乱造。
The doctor who had volunteered to settled down in the poor village became the chief fable of the villagers. 这个志愿到这个穷村庄落户的医生成了村民们的中心话题。
England of the 1930s, a small town mesmerized by the rumors and fables spun by children, this is a world that is full of the occult, strange oozing with an uncomforting and chilling dark atmosphere. 1930年代英国,受孩子们不可思议之谣言与童话围绕的某座小镇,一个深含诡异、奇玄,且时时散发令人不快、毛骨悚然之阴森气息的异样世界。
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as the ability to speak human language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.