a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination 臆造的事物;想像中的事 it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination. 还真是洛斯,不是她想像过头产生的幻觉。
语源
late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere 'form, contrive'. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent