a tall story

常見(jiàn)例句

Bush's accusation that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction turned out to be a tall story.
布殊指摘伊拉克擁有大殺傷力武器，原來(lái)只是個(gè)荒誕不經(jīng)的“作大”故事。
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Once we have got our bearings, we find we are listening to a tall story about a larger than life fish, that Albert Finney is relating it at his son's, Billy Crudup's wedding.
當(dāng)我們認(rèn)清方向，會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)正在聆聽(tīng)艾拔芬尼在其子比利告特的婚禮上，講述一個(gè)較生命還要巨大的大魚(yú)故事。
Talk about a tall story. Tom told me that his aunt and uncle are so fat that when they went to Europe they had to ride in three different airplanes.
湯姆大吹牛皮，他告訴我說(shuō)，他的嬸嬸和叔叔太胖了，當(dāng)他們?nèi)W洲的時(shí)候，只好分乘三架不同的飛機(jī)。
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The movie tells the story of humans meeting tall blue creatures called Na'vi on a planet called Pandora.
They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."
A tall tale is a story about a person who is larger than life.

Whether that is any more than a tall story remains to be seen.
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The primary culprit behind the explosion appears to be the blowout preventer, a two-story-tall stack of valves on the seafloor that was built by Cameron in 2001 and designed to guillotine shut an out-of-control well.
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