英语词汇“fiction”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fic·tion

(fĭkshən)

a. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.

b. Works in this category: the fiction of Virginia Woolf.

c. A work within this category: the shorter fictions of Faulkner.

a. Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated: The notion that he was at the scene of the crime is pure fiction.

b. A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated: "Neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world" (Howard Zinn).

3. Law A verbal contrivance that is in some sense inaccurate but that accomplishes a purpose, as in the treatment of husband and wife as one person or a corporation as an entity.

[Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin fictiō, fictiōn-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

fiction·al adj.

fic′tion·ali·ty (-shə-nălĭ-tē) n.

fiction·al·ly adv.

单词	fiction
释义	fic·tion (fĭkshən) n. 1. a. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact. b. Works in this category: the fiction of Virginia Woolf. c. A work within this category: the shorter fictions of Faulkner. 2. a. Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated: The notion that he was at the scene of the crime is pure fiction. b. A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated: "Neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world" (Howard Zinn). 3. Law A verbal contrivance that is in some sense inaccurate but that accomplishes a purpose, as in the treatment of husband and wife as one person or a corporation as an entity. [Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin fictiō, fictiōn-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] fiction·al adj. fic′tion·ali·ty (-shə-nălĭ-tē) n. fiction·al·ly adv.
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