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cautionary tale
释义
警世故事：一种故事，最初在民间传说中讲述，用来警示听众某种危险。
例句
1·Barely fifteen months later, it has become a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of international mergers and acquisitions.
15个月刚过，这便成了一个有关国际并购陷阱的警世故事。
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2·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示故事，告诉我们在像地球这样的行星上，任何事情都可能出错。
3·The real point of the cautionary tale , says animal behaviorist Herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them.
动物行为学家 Herzau 说，这个警示故事的真正意义在于，我们给事物贴上的标签会影响我们对事物的道德反应。
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