fiction

fiction
noun
  1. [mass noun]literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people
    小说，长篇小说
    ■invention or fabrication as opposed to fact
    虚构，杜撰，编造；捏造
    the president dismissed the allegation as absolute fiction.
    庭长驳回了指控，称其纯系捏造。
    ■[insing.]a belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so
    幌子
    the notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction.
    认为该国是民主国家不过是一个场面上的幌子。
派生
fictionist
noun
语源
  1. late Middle English (in the sense 'invented statement'): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere 'form, contrive'. Compare with feign and figment
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