A good example is the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart."

VOA: special.2009.02.02

He occupies in this passage every subject position of the fairy tale: the nurse, the hounds and the king.

他在这段中加入了童话的要素：,如保护者，猎犬和国王。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We have the dialectic of suspense on the one hand, how will this be resolved, and inevitability on the other, "Oh, it's a folk tale, it'll be resolved, don't worry about it."

我们一方面有悬念的对立，就不可避免地会有，另一个方面，即这个会怎样解决，“哦，这是个传说，这会解决的，不用担心它“

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"It's a cautionary tale, but in many respects it is quite ambiguous about where it stands on the science."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

That's the fairy tale again. In a way this is just like the Joyce.

这又是童话了，就像是乔伊斯写的那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says the public has a right to be angry about the latest tale of abuse: the decision by insurance giant AIG to hand out big bonuses to executives, even though taxpayer dollars are keeping the company afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

A myth, in this sense, according to the Greeks,is just a tale.

对希腊人来说就是一个传说

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The poem is a fairy tale.

这首诗是个童话故事。

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So having said that about musical notation-- something about a cautionary tale about musical notation-- we should think about how it affects the way we compose music in the West and how we perform music in the West.

讲完记谱法的一些,足以为戒的故事之后,我们也该想一下,它是如何影响西方音乐的作曲方式的,以及如何影响西方音乐的演奏方式

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So, in other words, if we apply some of the storyline 4 5 6 from the previous tale, if s1 happens to be 4, 5, s2 4 5 6 you're just asking the question is 4, 5, 6 equals equals to 1, 2, 3?

换句话说，如果我们运用之前的一些情节,如果s1正好为，正好为1，2，3，6，and，s2，happens，to，be，1，，2，，3，你就会问：,等于1，2，3吗？

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So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun there, a "fairy" tale. Proust is himself gay. One of his big subjects is homosexuality, and Nabokov's reaction to this is really homophobic. This is not just about Nabokov's personal prejudice.

但事实上，我想说的是这里的一个粗糙的双关语，一个“童话“故事，普鲁斯特是一个同性恋，他讨论的一个,话题就是同性恋，但纳博科夫对此是相当反感的,这仅仅是因为纳博科夫的个人偏见。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选