| 单词 | fictional |
| 释义 | fictional (fɪkʃənəl ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Fictional characters or events occur only in stories, plays, or films and never actually existed or happened. It is drama featuring fictional characters. Ulverton is a fictional village on the Wessex Downs. Synonyms: imaginary, made-up, invented, legendary Collocations: fictional form At that point they were a two-man documentary team with no fictional form. Times, Sunday Times It was a religious treatise in fictional form. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This etymological distinction avoids confusion of the literatures and the forms, with the novel being the more important, established fictional form. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By showing how the short story and novels reflected these preoccupations, she demonstrates the ways in which these fictional forms were transformed. The Times Literary Supplement The novel takes the form of alternate contributions from the author and his fictional hero before the two get closer. Times, Sunday Times Some writers have based their work on real-life models while soldiers have also sometimes seemed keen to live up to fictional heroes. The Times Literary Supplement In many regards, her life was as remarkable and inspirational as that of her fictional heroes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Redact his name, perhaps, in the manner of a national security file; or ignore him completely and fashion an alternative, fictional narrative? Times, Sunday Times Although in very distinct manners, both use fictional narrative as a tool to produce knowledge. The Times Literary Supplement Instead, they are taking the skills they've learned in film schools and using both documentary and fictional narrative techniques to change the direction in which their movies find an audience. Christianity Today Each has a different focus in media arts: documentary, fictional narrative and experimental. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He praised the historical element of the storyline, and how the game used factual information in its fictional narrative. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The type of tumor and the fatal result are factual, but the special powers and intelligence are fictional plot devices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The movie had an entirely fictional plot and was not intended to be a sequel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some readers have also complained the comic blurs the line between fiction and reality by featuring real people and using some real events as the basis for otherwise fictional plots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Why should it be the obligation of the viewer to distinguish a fictional portrayal from a real-life oasis of urban calm? Times, Sunday Times When you see a bad fictional portrayal of police officers, it's how coppers speak that they get wrong. Times, Sunday Times Pleasing a live audience, while dwelling among people who admired and praised her, for a time appealed more than deepening her fictional portrayals of a dying and unjust world. The Times Literary Supplement This has affected her fictional portrayals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our fictional representation of poverty, she said, was deeply problematic. Times,Sunday Times Other subjects, such as felines, insects, blobs, etc., have occurred in fictional representations of aliens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It may also be used by irregular military forces or paramilitary organizations to conceal their identities and have been used as an identifying feature in fictional representations of such groups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a second experiment, students took the role of a manager in a fictional scenario to rate staff performance. Times, Sunday Times These days we are all familiar with body swaps, the intriguing fictional scenario in which two people switch minds and end up in each other's bodies. The Times Literary Supplement According to the prosecution, the officers then went on to invent a fictional scenario which was 'almost entirely a fabrication and was largely the product of the imagination'. Times, Sunday Times It revealed that it has been stess-testing banks, applying fictional scenarios to see how their balance sheets could cope with a deep, prolonged recession. Times, Sunday Times Some such objects are mathematical abstractions, literary concepts, or fictional scenarios. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The playwright's notes mention that 'historical events should always show' through the fictional setting of the play. The Times Literary Supplement Plus, unlike that hit's fictional setting, this takes us back to a time when the world really was on the brink. The Sun Skylight takes that common fictional setting, the block of flats, as its matrix. The Times Literary Supplement It appears to take place in a fictional setting, and uses fictional names, although treating them as if real. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Typically, each player controls only a single character, which represents an individual in a fictional setting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But his real-life historical namesake led a life as actionpacked as any fictional story. The Sun It takes a fictional story and makes it a bit more fictional-feeling-almost as if the words 'long ago and far away'; were flashed on title cards at the beginning. Christianity Today It addresses world politics through the fictional story of a small-town family, concert footage and 10 songs. Globe and Mail He usually creates a fictional story about each location, imagining an old invented history. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But surprisingly, much of the fictional story isn't scientifically accurate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, it's a fictional tale about two scientists who set out to identify mysterious remains found on the sea bed. The Sun Others see it as a fictional tale based superficially on a foreign land. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This film, as the name suggests, takes place rough 12,000 years ago and follows the fictional tale of a hero. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It focuses on scientific experiments being portrayed through a humorous story, or a fictional tale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a fictional tale of a family raised on and later returning to the lake. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a novel of 1860, this place inspired a fictional town, with 'its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves'. Times, Sunday Times During the summer actors would walk around the area of the theme park and pretend to represent the residents of the fictional town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Users of the site created characters who then related the events in the fictional town to their audiences. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Stories are set in a fictional town where the characters reside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This did not go down well with some journalists and journalism lecturers, who had a sentimental attachment to the fictional town and launched a campaign to save it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sheer weight of carefully researched technical detail lent verisimilitude to a fictional universe which was a vivid projection of the author's political and emotional beliefs. Times, Sunday Times This was a typically evocative notion, applying his theme of interconnectedness to his own fictional universe, but had little more specificity. The Times Literary Supplement The series covers several different genres from platforming to puzzle, though they are all set in the same fictional universe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ranks are arranged according to the fictional universe that they belong to and, where available, a current military equivalent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The characters and settings of the films are further explored in other media set in the same fictional universe, including animation, comics, and video games. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One can only hope that, in the dawn of a new presidency, the fictional version triumphs in the end. Times, Sunday Times He put a fictional version of her in the previous two books with her agreement. Times, Sunday Times The comedian stars as a fictional version of himself as he attempts to mend a broken heart by hanging out with old friends. The Sun He was reported as disliking the fictional version of his situation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He confessed he was a little bemused by her reaction to a fictional character sending a prop shield to a fictional version of himself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Might it not provide a respite, an opportunity to examine the architecture of another fictional world and to emerge from that experience renewed? The Times Literary Supplement (2013) Then in this fictional world I could say what is really going on. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Fictional writing was where he felt most comfortable and grounded. The Times Literary Supplement The book was intended to draw the natural fictional talents of lawyers, with the idea that legal and fictional writing are compatible genres. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His fictional writing gave graphic accounts of the lives of that class of people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her use of devices common in fictional writing, such as dialog, characterization and thematic development has led some reviewers to categorize her books as autobiographical fiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The result of this may be a short story, novel, novella, screenplay, or drama, which are all types (though not the only types) of fictional writing styles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These prophetic dreams were often reported at several removes from the original event and, when not purely fictional, are hard to verify. The Times Literary Supplement Yet 'the 12', as they are known, are not purely fictional. Times, Sunday Times From the purely fictional to the straight autobiographical. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Purely fictional and oneiric experiences are inseparably interwoven with large sections of real personages or of slightly modified personages and events. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A handful of exceptions, notably faster-than-light interstellar travel and superluminal communication, depend on purely fictional or speculative principles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 虚构的 Japanese: 架空の |
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