fiction
n. 小说, 虚构故事 [法] 虚构的事实, 捏造, 拟制
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小说；虚构，编造；谎言
books and stories about imaginary people and events
romantic fiction
爱情小说
historical fiction
历史小说
释义与例句
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1.
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
虚构文学
小说
可数 不可数 媒体I am a great reader of fiction.
the fiction section of the library
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A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
可数 不可数The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
separate the fact from the fiction
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3.
A legal fiction.
可数 不可数 法律
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”).
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