fiction/fable/novel/romance/story/tale.导航词义：故事

1. fiction:n. 小说.指人物与情节均为虚构的文学作品。

She is a popular writer of science fiction.

她是一位很受欢迎的科幻小说家。

He prefers historical fiction to romance novels.

比起爱情小说，他更喜欢历史小说。

2. fable:n. 寓言故事.指篇幅短小、旨在道德教化的传统故事，尤指动物寓言故事。

It's a land rich in fable.

此地是寓言之乡。

This is a fable about a dog and a mouse.

这是一个关于狗和老鼠的寓言故事。

3. novel:n. 小说.指长篇小说。

'War and Peace' is a great novel by Leo Tolstoy.

《战争与和平》是列夫·托尔斯泰的长篇巨著。

He has read all of the novels by Dickens.

他读过狄更斯的全部小说。

4. romance:n. 爱情故事；传奇故事.特指这两类小说，作后者解时尤指旧时创作或以古代为背景的传奇故事。

This is a romance about a prince who married a poor girl.

这是一则王子同灰姑娘结婚的爱情故事。

The figure comes from a medieval romance.

这个人物来自中世纪的传奇故事。

5. story:n. 故事，小说.指意在娱乐大众的叙事性文学作品，其内容可能是真实的，也可能是虚构的。

He spent the whole afternoon reading a detective story.

他整个下午都在读一本侦探小说。

This novel is based on a true story.

这部小说是根据真实故事而写的。

6. tale:n. 故事.指虚构的惊险刺激的故事。

The newly published book contains 20 old Chinese folk tales.

新出版的这本书包含20个古老的中国民间故事。

The author earned his fame through several popular tales of adventure.

这名作家因多个广受欢迎的探险故事而出了名。

全部

1·He is working on a new novel.

他正在写一部新小说。《牛津词典》

2·Have you read her new novel?

你看过她新出的小说了吗？《牛津词典》

3·This is a very slight novel.

这是一部颇不足道的小说。《牛津词典》

4·His latest novel is a humdinger.

他最新的一部小说棒极了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The novel is good in parts.

小说的一些章节不错。《牛津词典》

6·He's hard at work on a new novel.

他正努力忙着写一本新小说。《牛津词典》

7·He recommenced work on his novel.

他重新开始了自己的小说创作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·Her latest novel is her best yet.

她的最新小说是到目前为止她的最好的小说。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·Her novel is still relevant today.

她的小说今天仍有现实意义。《牛津词典》

10·Her latest novel is eagerly awaited.

人们正急切地期待着她的最新小说。《牛津词典》

小说

1·Have you read her new novel?

你看过她新出的小说了吗？《牛津词典》

2·He is working on a new novel.

他正在写一部新小说。《牛津词典》

3·Her novel is still relevant today.

她的小说今天仍有现实意义。《牛津词典》

4·The novel is good in parts.

小说的一些章节不错。《牛津词典》

5·Her latest novel is eagerly awaited.

人们正急切地期待着她的最新小说。《牛津词典》

新的

1·I've struck on a novel means of doing the job.

我突然想到一个干这活的新方法。

2·Where machines have made very little progress is in tackling novel situations.

机器在处理新情况方面进展甚微。

3·Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

有时，真正的新发现需要数年时间才能被接受和欣赏。

4·The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together.

这种永远在线的互联网设备带来了一些新的可能性，比如对学生聚集的地点进行追踪。

5·Evarts, a 20-year-old inventor, has come up with a novel solution that could easily put texting drivers on notice.

20岁的发明家埃瓦茨想出了一个新的解决方案，它可以让发短信的司机很容易注意到。

新颖的

1·He agreed to join because he found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact.

他之所以同意加入，是因为他“发现 SBoRE 创立背后远见卓识的新颖、独特性，并可能产生持久的影响”。

2·This how is not only a design problem, it also pleads for something novel.

这不仅仅是设计问题，而是在追求一些新颖的东西。

3·Until then, however, he is working with reconstituted silkworm silk, making novel films and other materials.

但直到那时，还在研究重组蚕丝，并利用它来制造新颖的薄膜和其他材料。

4·Novelty is threatening for some people, but assuming the environment is safe and there is not an over abundance of novelty in the environment, your audience will be seeking the novel and the new.

新颖的东西不见得总是讨人喜欢的，如果你能确认这是一个容易愿意接受新鲜事物的环境，而且你的新鲜不是老套的新鲜，何不让观众享受你的新颖。

5·It's a great book, not only because it is fun to read but also because they are able to communicate the essence of design patterns in a novel and highly visual way.

这是一本好书，并不仅仅是因为这本书读起来很有趣，而且这本书的作者们通过新颖的，栩栩如生的方式来教授设计模式的精髓。

新奇的

1·Protesters found a novel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices.

抗议者们找到一种新奇的示威方式来反对石油价格的飙升。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·One example of social learning is the acquisition of preferences for novel foods.

社会学习的一个例子是获得对新奇食物的偏好。

3·Remember this is 1838, Self-Reliance was a novel idea at the time and the United States citizens were less secure about themselves as individuals and as Americans.

记住这是在1838年，“自力更生”在当时是一个新奇的概念，美国公民对他们自己作为个人和作为美国人的安全感较低。

4·Performing de novo sequencing without knowing amino acid masses is very novel.

在不知道氨基酸团块的情况下进行从头测序是很新奇的。

5·Activities that have the highest value for brain health are those that are novel and complex to each particular person.

对大脑健康有最高价值的活动是那些对每一个特定的人是新奇而复杂的事。

长篇小说

1·The novel is based on his travels in India.

这部长篇小说是根据他的印度之行写成的。《牛津词典》

2·The only kind of reading that related to higher academic performance was frequent novel reading, which predicted better grades in English class and higher overall grade point averages.

唯一一个与高学习成绩相关联的阅读习惯则是经常阅读长篇小说。 它预示着英文老师会给你更高的评级，在总体年级平均成绩上拿到好看的分数。

3·He published poetry anthology Love Without Regret (cooperation), prose anthology Qing River Flowing Like This, novel Representative of Workers, etc.

著有诗集《无憾的纯情》(与人合集)、散文集《清江就这样流淌》、长篇小说《代表工》等。

4·If you just don't have the time to write a 600-page novel, is there some other way you could express your thoughts and creativity that you do have time for, like blogging?

要是没有时间去写600页的长篇小说，可不可以换成其它更省时间但同样能够表达思想和创意的途径，比如写博客？

5·His main works are prose anthology Forever Homesick, poetry anthology Singing Sounded Like Spring, novel Naked Dance, etc.

主要作品有散文集《永远的乡情》，诗集《轻唱若泉》，长篇小说《裸舞》等。

新鲜的

1·Staging in-house competitions to boost productivity is hardly novel. But gaming technology can make competition more enjoyable.

举行企业内部的竞争可以提高生产力，这一点都不新鲜，但是游戏能让竞争变得令人愉快。

2·They will be instilling into the community novel culture, freshness and more energy.

他们的到来，将会给我们的社区带来更加新鲜的文化和活力。

3·Nowadays, Internet is not a novel thing again for enterprise, Most enterprises have already set up one's own websites.

如今，互连网对企业来说已经不再是新鲜的事物了，大多数的企业都已经建立了自己的网站。

4·Now that she has left the countryside and come to the city, she finds everything so novel. She says that she yearns for the outside world.

现在，查利云离开了农村到了城里，觉得一切都很新鲜，她说她向往外面的世界。

异常的

1·Researchers identified a novel process by which stress causes memory lapses.

研究人员发现了一个异常的过程，压力会导致记忆力衰退。

2·Moore said this phenomenon is most evident when Collins interacts with women, his intricate and novel behavioral patterns simultaneously evoking rage, confusion, revulsion, and indignation.

Moore说这种现象在Collins与女性接触时最为明显，这时他复杂而异常的行为模式会同时引发愤怒、疑惑、反感和愤慨。

3·The researchers were trying to make compounds with novel electronic properties, mixing manganese oxide, which is black, with other chemicals and heating them to high temperatures.

研究者们正在试图通过混合黑色的锰氧化物和其它的化学品，并且将它们加热到高的温度，来制造具有异常电子特性的化合物。

(1)historical novel历史小说

(1)gothic novel哥特小说；哥特式小说

(1)river novel长篇小说

(1)saga novel长篇小说；家世小说

(1)full-length novel长篇小说；足本小说，未经删节的小说