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单词 figment
释义
figment
noun
uk
/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/us
/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/
a figment ofsomeone'simagination
something thatseemsrealbut is not:
凭空想象的事物，臆造的东西
Was it just a figment of myimaginationor did IhearJohn'svoicein the otherroom?是我的想象还是我真听到了约翰在另一间房里说话？
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(Definition offigmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffigment

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The opposition is only resolved when economic realities of modernity make the world of the riverboats redundant, mere figments of the urban imagination.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Some think it obvious that values are figments of our imagination or projections of our feelings, that talk about values is mere exclamation or prescription.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Oddly enough, to some investigators this event is little more than afigmentof our imagination, at least in terms of evolution.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Nor can it be used, say, to dismiss bounded rationality anomalies as figments of semantic misunderstandings.
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In both conditions he is more authentic than the lover, who remains enthralled to afigmentor void that corresponds to the fate built into his artificial self.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The house is not thefigmentof the imagination of a technology journalist, but actually has been built and has a price tag and is for sale now.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is impossible to dismiss all these apprehensions as groundless figments of the imagination.
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Was it afigmentof the naval correspondent's imagination?
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He thought that the real danger was that the shadow would be taken for the reality; that commercialism was afigmentof the imagination.
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That conjures up very pleasant pictures and figments of the imagination.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The bowler-hatted, striped-trousered, brolly-carrying, tea-drinking and red-tape-wrapping caricature of the civil servant is afigmentof the cartoonists' vivid imagination.
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It is afigmentof imagination, and that money will not immediately exist.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
After all, cross species infection is not afigmentof science fiction imagination.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is a natural principle that all men, and all nation states, are equal, and national preference is afigmentof the nineteenth century!
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They were left holding a national plan that was a purefigmentof their imagination.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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