n.(名词)

1. 小说
2. 虚构
3. 虚构的事
4. 想像
5. 捏造
6. 谎言
7. 虚构的文学作品
8. 编造
9. 编造的谎话
10. 【律】假定
11. （法律的）拟制
12. 假想
13. 杜撰
14. 假想之物
15. 并非完全真实的事

v.(动词)

1. 允许被小说化

n.(名词)

1. [U][C]小说 type of literature (e.g. novels, stories) describing imaginary events and people
2. [C]虚构; 想象; 杜撰 thing that is invented or imagined and not strictly true

Noun:

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

2. a deliberately false or improbable account

1.小说
fiction refers to books and stories about imaginary people and events, rather than books about real people or events.

e.g. Immigrant tales have always been popular themes infiction...
移民故事一直是小说中常见的主题。
e.g. Diana is a writer of historicalfiction.
黛安娜是历史小说作家。

2.虚构;杜撰;编造
A statement or account that isfiction is not true.

fiction的近义词

e.g. The truth orfiction of this story has never been truly determined.
这个故事一直以来真伪莫辨。

3.虚构之事;幻想
If something is afiction, it is not true, although people sometimes pretend that it is true.

e.g. The idea that the United States could harmoniously accommodate all was afiction.
认为美国可以接纳所有的人，使之和谐相处是一个幻想。

1.

1. 假定：我自己原有的Linux机器(Linux box)为例标注了一些参数的估计值.当你从左向右观察该不可能的,但是在生成代码的时候这个假定(fiction)却能够带来很大方便,这是由于进程技术.与此类似,

1. He prefers light fiction to serious novels.
   比起严肃小说来,他更为喜欢轻松的小说。
2. He has read many American fictions.
   他读过很多部美国小说。
3. His next two fictions will be published soon.
   他的下两部小说即将出版。
4. I have read many detective fictions.
   我看过许多侦探小说。
5. Her story was a pure fiction.
   她的故事纯属虚构。
6. That is a polite fiction.
   那是冠冕堂皇的应酬话。
7. His account of the crime was a complete fiction.
   他对那种罪行的叙述完全是胡编乱造的。

• Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction.

  出自：Gibbon

a work of popular fiction

通俗小说作品

historical'/romantic fiction

历史 / 言情小说

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。

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

移民故事一直是小说中常见的主题。

Diana is a writer of historical fiction.

黛安娜是历史小说作家。

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

这个故事一直以来真伪莫辨。

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。

Is the story fact or fiction?

这个故事的情节是真实的还是虚构的?

Her story was a pure fiction.

她的故事纯属虚构.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

实际的人生比虚构的故事还离奇.

Science fiction stories often mention robots that can talk.

科幻小说常提到会说话的机器人.

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.

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.

Fact [ Truth ] is stranger than fiction.

[ 谚 ] 事实比小说还离奇.

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.

The sheer volume of fiction produced is staggering.

完成的小说数量之巨令人吃惊.

He does the fiction for a newspaper.

他负责给报纸写小说评论.

a devotee of science fiction

科幻小说的狂热爱好者

a work of popular fiction

通俗小说作品

The book intermingles fact with fiction.

这本书事实和虚构并存。

one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction

最了不起的科幻小说家之一

an avid reader of science fiction

科幻小说迷

I read everything from fiction to history.

从小说到历史，我什么书都读。

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。

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。

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。

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。

n.(名词)

fiction, fable

这两个词的共同意思是“故事”“小说”。fiction包括的范围较广,可指短篇、中篇、长篇小说和传奇故事; 而fable指借助动物、植物、物品等形象或对话,说明某一哲理的寓言,通常其寓意在结尾点明。

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、对白的虚构长篇散文体故事。

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。

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的fictio，意为想象，虚构。