英语成语:figment of the imagination, a
An experience that initially is thought to be real but is actually imagined.
机译:一种最初被认为是真实的,但实际上是想象出来的体验。
I thought I heard the sound of my front door opening last night but it turned out to be a figment of my imagination.
机译:我以为昨晚我听到了前门打开的声音,但事实证明这是我想象出来的。
To be an imagined experience (especially after one has initially thought it to be real).
机译:成为一种想象中的体验(尤其是在人们最初认为它是真实的之后)。
I thought I heard the sound of my front door opening last night but it turned out to be a figment of my imagination.
机译:我以为昨晚我听到了前门打开的声音,但事实证明这是我想象出来的。
An imaginary occurrence; a pipe dream. This expression is tautological, since figment means a product of fictitious invention. Nevertheless, it has been used since the mid-nineteenth century. It appeared in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847): “The long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination.”
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