Fiction
['fɪkʃ(ə)n] or ['fɪkʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
手打:奈杰尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
(n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
(n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
(n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
校对:贾斯廷
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Invention, fable.[2]. Novel, romance, work of fiction, feigned story.[3]. Fabrication, figment, falsehood, lie.[4]. Fictitious literature.
编辑:卡罗尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Invention, fabrication, creation, figment, fable, falsehood, romance, myth
ANT:Fact, truth, verity, reality
编辑:兰德尔
解释:
n. a feigned or false story: a falsehood: romance: the novel story-telling as a branch of literature: a supposition of law that a thing is true which is either certainly not true or at least is as probably false as true.—adj. Fic′tional.—n. Fic′tionist a writer of fiction.—adj. Ficti′tious imaginary: not real: forged.—adv. Ficti′tiously.—adj. Fic′tive fictitious imaginative.—n. Fic′tor one who makes images of clay &c.
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例句:
- Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Who talks of the marvels of fiction? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle examined the scholars once a quarter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- A bas la France, la Fiction et les Faquins! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- They entirely forget that fiction is but a reflection of real life, and that man can imagine nothing, but merely reproduces what he sees around him. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Ideas always represent the Objects or impressions, from which they are derived, and can never without a fiction represent or be applied to any other. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- This is no fiction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- This family fiction was the family assertion of itself against her services. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- His old housekeeper is the first to understand that he is striving to uphold the fiction with himself that it is not growing late. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But this notion of mind in general is a fiction. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The relation of good men to their governments is so peculiar, that in order to defend them I must take an illustration from the world of fiction. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- A grisly little fiction concerning her lovers is Lady Tippins's point. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate—and which some people really believed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- For a moment I could yield to the creative power of the imagination, and for a moment was soothed by the sublime fictions it presented to me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Men only began to suspect that they were fictions when they recognised them to be immoral. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- There is something weak and imperfect amidst all that seeming vehemence of thought and sentiment, which attends the fictions of poetry. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
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