英汉词典

fiction 基本解释

• n. 小说；虚构，编造；谎言

fiction 词态变化

fiction 中文词源

来自PIE*dheigh, 捏造，制造，形成，词源同dough, figure. 用来指小说。

fiction 英文词源

fiction

fiction: [14] Fiction is literally ‘something made or invented’ – and indeed that was the original meaning of the word in English. It seems always to have been used in the sense ‘story or set of “facts” invented’ rather than of some concrete invention, however, and by the end of the 16th century it was being applied specifically to a literary genre of ‘invented narrative’. The word comes via Old French from Latin fictiō, a derivative of the verb fingere ‘make, shape’, from which English also gets effigy, faint, feign, figure, and figment.
=> effigy, faint, feign, figure, figment

fiction (n.)

early 15c., ficcioun, "that which is invented or imagined in the mind," from Old French ficcion "dissimulation, ruse; invention, fabrication" (13c.) and directly from Latin fictionem (nominative fictio) "a fashioning or feigning," noun of action from past participle stem of fingere "to shape, form, devise, feign," originally "to knead, form out of clay," from PIE *dheigh- "to build, form, knead" (source also of Old English dag "dough;" see dough).

Meaning "prose works (not dramatic) of the imagination" is from 1590s, at first often including plays and poems. Narrower sense of "the part of literature comprising novels and short stories based on imagined scenes or characters" is by early 19c. The legal sense (fiction of law) is from 1580s. A writer of fiction could be a fictionist (1827). The related Latin words included the literal notion "worked by hand," as well as the figurative senses of "invented in the mind; artificial, not natural": Latin fictilis "made of clay, earthen;" fictor "molder, sculptor" (also borrowed 17c. in English), but also of Ulysses as "master of deceit;" fictum "a deception, falsehood; fiction."

fiction 英文释义

1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

2. a deliberately false or improbable account

fiction 同义词解析

novel, romance, fiction, story, fable, tale

这些名词均含"小说，故事"之意。

novel： 指任何有情节、人物、对白，虚构的长篇散文体故事。

romance系novel早期的代用词，泛指具有强烈神话和传奇色彩的故事，现指爱情故事。

fiction： 指部分或全部虚构的短篇、中篇、长篇小说，也指传奇故事，是小说的总称。

story： 指篇幅较短，常包含一系列情节或事件，口述或书写成文的故事。

fable： 指短小而寓有教育意义的虚构故事。故事的主人公多为拟人化的动物或非动物之类。也作传说解。

tale常可与story换用，指以事实为中心作叙述的故事，也指古代流传下来的传说故事或神话故事。

fiction 双语例句

1. Fiction takes up a large slice of the publishing market.

小说在出版市场上占了很大的份额。

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2. Naomi's mothering experiences are poignantly described in her fiction.

娜奥米把她当母亲的经历字字辛酸地写进了小说。

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3. The line between fact and fiction is becoming blurred.

事实和虚构之间的界限正变得模糊起来。

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4. Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances.

她喜欢的小说是大部头的历史言情故事。

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5. The border between science fact and science fiction gets a bit fuzzy.

科学事实和科幻小说之间的界限变得有点儿模糊了。

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fiction 实用场景例句

a work of popular fiction

通俗小说作品

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historical/romantic fiction

历史 / 言情小说

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For years he managed to keep up the fiction that he was not married.

多年来他设法一直给人一种未婚的假象。

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Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction...

移民故事一直是小说中常见的主题。

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Diana is a writer of historical fiction.

黛安娜是历史小说作家。

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The truth or fiction of this story has never been truly determined.

这个故事一直以来真伪莫辨。

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The idea that the United States could harmoniously accommodate all was a fiction.

认为美国可以接纳所有的人，使之和谐相处是一个幻想。

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Is the story fact or fiction?

这个故事的情节是真实的还是虚构的?

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Her story was a pure fiction.

她的故事纯属虚构.

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Truth is stranger than fiction.

实际的人生比虚构的故事还离奇.

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Science fiction stories often mention robots that can talk.

科幻小说常提到会说话的机器人.

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It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.

把团体法人当作一个人是一种法律上的假设.

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I saw the child reading a science fiction comic.

我看见那孩子在看一本科幻连环漫画杂志.

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Fact [ Truth ] is stranger than fiction.

[ 谚 ] 事实比小说还离奇.

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Fiction writing as a means of living is no easy task.

写小说作为一种谋生手段绝非易事.

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The sheer volume of fiction produced is staggering.

完成的小说数量之巨令人吃惊.

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He does the fiction for a newspaper.

他负责给报纸写小说评论.

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a devotee of science fiction

科幻小说的狂热爱好者

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a work of popular fiction

通俗小说作品

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The book intermingles fact with fiction.

这本书事实和虚构并存。

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one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction

最了不起的科幻小说家之一

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an avid reader of science fiction

科幻小说迷

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I read everything from fiction to history.

从小说到历史，我什么书都读。

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Naomi's mothering experiences are poignantly described in her fiction.

娜奥米把她当母亲的经历字字辛酸地写进了小说。

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Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint.

不幸的是，公众把小说和现实混为一谈，把她当成了圣徒。

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I did not yet make a distinction between the pleasures of reading and of writing fiction.

我还没有搞清楚阅读的快乐和写小说的快乐有何不同。

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I failed in my career as a writer of fiction entirely because of deficiencies in the education system.

我的小说作家生涯失败了，原因完全是因为教育体制的缺陷。

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