| 词汇 | factitious |
| 释义 | factitious adjective formaluk /fækˈtɪʃ.əs/ us /fækˈtɪʃ.əs/ artificial rather than natural: 人造的;合成的;人为的 The excitement was largely factitious and confined to the media.这番热闹景象不过是媒体人为营造出来的而已。 Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial forced forcedly fustian glib glibly piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality Examples of factitiousfactitious Associative obligations thus do not arise from merely factitious groupings. Factitious microcalcifications in breast biopsy material: laboratory induced error by use of tattoo powder for specimen mammography. It was then determined whether each episode was medically unexplained, explained, mixed in nature (evidence of both physical and psychological disorder) or factitious. Malingering and factitious disorders, where the symptoms are produced or feigned intentionally, are excluded. The great gap separating races is largely factitious. Such topics are interesting contributions to the overall theme, as are the shades of illness deception, such as exaggeration, factitious illnesses and the like. His eminently factitious promotion of this marriage so that a disparity of some thirty years (virtually) disappears is self-serving in more ways than he - and, possibly, his author - openly concedes. Mass production in natural or factitious hosts entails the expense of production of the host species. Some of the farmers have asked for large numbers of their families to be retained, sometimes with titles which were more or less factitious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bearing in mind what was said earlier today this could be fractious or factitious—or whatever the definition may be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you attempted to excite interest in an election, you would introduce a wholly factitious interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some have used and still use this notion—a factitious one in the first place—for political ends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must say that that sort of pompous outrage seemed a little factitious to me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those proposals and those negotiations may be malicious or factitious or illusory, as the case may be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some people ask why should there be a factitious interest in elections if the people do not care for them? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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