figment

英 [ˈfɪɡmənt]

美 [ˈfɪɡmənt]

n.  虚构的事物

复数：figments　

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BNC.19859 / COCA.22358

习惯用语

n.

a figment of sb's imagination
• 凭空想象的事物；臆造的东西；虚构的事
  something that sb has imagined and that does not really exist

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 臆造的事物;虚构的事物
  If you say that something is afigment ofsomeone'simagination, you mean that it does not really exist and that they are just imagining it.
  1. The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
     袭击可不是我凭空想象出来的。

英英释义

noun

• a contrived or fantastic idea
  1. a figment of the imagination

双语例句

• I told the FBI that call was a figment of my imagination.
  我对联邦调查局说电话是我幻想。
• It is a pity that some important academic problems were not treated of at that time, such as reality of the living and the figment of the art, realistic and ideal, reappear and express, limited and infinite, etc.
  但当时对一些重大理论问题，如生活的真实与艺术的虚构、写实与理想、再现与表现、有限与无限等等类型，都未论及，留下遗憾。
• Yes. You are a figment of the past!
  对，你是过去的幻影！
• Was that girl wearing no blouse or was it a figment of my imagination?
  是那姑娘没穿上衣呢，还是我凭空想象的事？
• Is this "spider" thing a figment of your imagination, too?
  这个什么“蜘蛛”也是你编造出来的？
• But it was all a figment of fancy, a matter of surface.
  但是，这都不过是种错觉，是种表面现象。
• Lime: Shangri-La is a figment of imagination about the perfect paradise.
  石灰杂志：《心中的日月》是关于完美天国的虚构想象。
• To anyone else, Philemon might be perceived as a figment of jung's imagination, or evidence of madness.
  对于其他人，腓利门也许是容格想像的一个虚构人物，或者是疯狂的迹象。
• Hardly shabby for a company that, just seven years ago, remained a figment of its cofounders wildly intrepid imaginations.
  对于一家7年前还只是存在于共同创始人大胆想象之中的公司，这个数字可一点也不寒碜。
• The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
  袭击可不是我凭空想象出来的。