aesoplikeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Aesop +‎ -like.

形容詞

Aesoplike (comparative more Aesoplike, superlative most Aesoplike)

1. Alternative form of Aesop-like
   • 1957, Edwin A. Burtt, Man Seeks the Divine: A Study in the History and Comparison of Religions, Harper & Brothers, page 198:

     He [Zhuang Zhou] loved to pillory the Confucian thinkers for their proud claims to wisdom and superior rectitude; he teased them with amusing stories about Confucius which are on a par with Aesoplike tales about the “Spirit of the River” and “General Clouds”—the point of many of the stories being that Confucius was really a Taoist in disguise.

   • 1967, The Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin, page 924:

     Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, 12th cent. Fables of a Jewish Aesop, tr. from the Fox fables of [the author] by Moses Hadas. Illus. with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. 1967. 233p. illus. Columbia, $5.95. / Predominantly Aesoplike and Aesop-derived fables written by a rabbi of medieval France.

   • 1995, “Purposes of Oral Literature”, in Rodney Frey, editor, Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest; As Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail, and Other Elders (The Civilization of the American Indian), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, pages 174–175:

     This is not to suggest that the stories are told for explicitly moralistic reasons. The telling of a particular story is not typically followed by a specific, Aesoplike, “moralistic-commentary.”