English-Spanish translations for fable

fábulaUtilizar el lenguaje de las fábulas no es la manera de avanzar de las promesas a los hechos. Using the language of fables is not the way to move from promises to action. Se criticó porque duplicaba el sistema GPS estadounidense, pero eso me recuerda la fábula del ciego y el paralítico. It was criticised as duplicating the American GPS, but that made me think of the fable of the blind man and the paralytic. Todos conocemos la fábula de La Fontaine y su desenlace: ganaremos la carrera, eso es cierto, pero, ¿cuántas vidas se perderán en el camino? We all know La Fontaine's fable, and how it ends: we will win the race, certainly, but how many lives will be lost before that happens?

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, w:Aesop's Fables|Aesop's Fables
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk
Fiction; untruth; falsehood
The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true
To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable

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