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

• 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。
• I thought all this was simply a figment of one's imagination.
  我认为那些只不过是人们的凭空想像和虚构。
• 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？
• 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。
• I started to believe he was just a myth, a modern Yeti, a figment of some very disturbed people imaginations.
  我开始相信他只是一个神话，一个现代化的雪人，有一些非常不安的人想像虚构。
• The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
  袭击可不是我凭空想象出来的。
• "That's ridiculous!" he shot back." It was just good luck. God's a figment of your imagination. "
  “这也太可笑了！”他回击着我，“你说的那些就是好运气罢了，神只是你想象出来的虚幻的事物而已。”
• 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。
• Is this "spider" thing a figment of your imagination, too?
  这个什么“蜘蛛”也是你编造出来的？
• Can we return to this time of classical beauty and grace or is this ideal a figment of the modern imagination?
  我们是否可以回到古典的美与雅中去？抑或这仅仅只是一个臆造的想像？