单词 | a figment of sb imagination |
释义 | a figment of sb imaginationa figment of sb imagination 1 IMAGINEsomething that you imagine is real, but does not exist 某人凭空想象的事物,某人虚构的事物 Examples from the Corpus a figment of somebody’s imagination• These two men actually lived; they weren't figments of some writer's imagination.• The gymslip Lolita is not entirely a figment of the male imagination.• The carpet is a figment of the imagination: an oriental pattern of light and shadow projected on the floor.• The ugly rectory is a figment of my imagination, for there was never such a building on Wood Green.• But don't take my word for it; this is not a figment of the journalistic imagination.• It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination.• Nearly three years after work had begun, the dam was still a figment of the imagination.• The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth's imagination: it stands in some way in relation to his conscience.• Neither one was a figment of his imagination. → a figment of somebody’s imagination at figment(1) 2 IMAGINEto be something that someone imagines, not something that really exists or happens 是某人的幻想[幻象] Did you hear that noise, or was it my imagination? 你听到那个声音了吗? 还是那是我的幻觉? These people do exist; they’re not figments of my imagination. 这些人确实存在,他们不是我凭空想象出来的。 Examples from the Corpus be (a figment of) somebody’s imagination• Puny appeared thoughtful, or was it his imagination?• Was it his imagination, or could he really feel the beginnings of a headache?• The real limit to whatever ingenious notions and ideas we may develop is our own imagination.• No, it was just my imagination running riot.• Yet it was not all imagination.• All that is left to connect us to the past is the imagination.• My subject was landscape and imagination.• Thoughts are things; imagination is experience. → be (a figment of) somebody’s imagination at imagination(1) |
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