| 词汇 | figment |
| 释义 | figment noun uk /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/ us /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/ a figment of someone's imagination something that seems real but is not: 凭空想象的事物，臆造的东西 Was it just a figment of my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?是我的想象还是我真听到了约翰在另一间房里说话？ Unreal things and unreality alternate reality alternative reality birther cloud cuckoo land delusion fairyland fallacy false hopes falsity fantasy la-la land make believephrase never-never land non-fact non-factual phantom pie pie in the skyidiom unreality untruth Examples of figmentfigment The opposition is only resolved when economic realities of modernity make the world of the riverboats redundant, mere figments of the urban imagination. 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. Oddly enough, to some investigators this event is little more than a figment of our imagination, at least in terms of evolution. Nor can it be used, say, to dismiss bounded rationality anomalies as figments of semantic misunderstandings. In both conditions he is more authentic than the lover, who remains enthralled to a figment or void that corresponds to the fate built into his artificial self. The house is not the figment of the imagination of a technology journalist, but actually has been built and has a price tag and is for sale now. It is impossible to dismiss all these apprehensions as groundless figments of the imagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was it a figment of the naval correspondent's imagination? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He thought that the real danger was that the shadow would be taken for the reality; that commercialism was a figment of the imagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That conjures up very pleasant pictures and figments of the imagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The bowler-hatted, striped-trousered, brolly-carrying, tea-drinking and red-tape-wrapping caricature of the civil servant is a figment of the cartoonists' vivid imagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a figment of imagination, and that money will not immediately exist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, cross species infection is not a figment of science fiction imagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a natural principle that all men, and all nation states, are equal, and national preference is a figment of the nineteenth century! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They were left holding a national plan that was a pure figment of their imagination. 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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