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figment n.虛構;虛構的事物。

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In a state between sleeping and waking , you noticed her entrance and her actions ; but feverish , almost delirious as you were , you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own : the long dishevelled hair , the swelled black face , the exaggerated stature , were figments of imagination ; results of nightmare : the spiteful tearing of the veil was real : and it is like her 在似睡非睡的狀態下,你注意到她進了房間,看到了她的行動,但由于你興奮得幾乎發狂,你把她當成了不同于她本來面貌的鬼相:散亂的長發黑黑的腫臉夸大了的身材是你的臆想,惡夢的產物。惡狠狠撕毀面紗倒是真的,很象她干的事。

Thus no one has ever refuted the scepticism of david hume about causation , the conception of personal identity and the existence of an external world of nature , but we all go on acting on the assumption that cause and effect are real and that we are the same persons as we were when we went to sleep last night and that the world around us is not a figment in a dream 休姆對于個人特性的構成與大自然外在世界的存在具有一定的因果關系、提出懷疑,并沒有人加以駁斥,但我們仍然都按照一些假定生活下去:因果關系是真實的,今天的我跟昨晚就睡的我是同一個人,在我們周遭的世界并不是一個夢中的虛構事物。

If it is the former , he is to hold to the plot tightly when he hunts about among the figments of his imagination for the people , not in what is called real life ; if the latter , he must emphasize certain saliencies which fit his plot , in order to make the characters real and to make them come alive in the new environment he has chosen for them 如果以情節為主,小說家即在虛構的事情中間而非在所謂的真實生活中尋找人物的時候,抓住情節不放;如果以人物為主,那么,小說家則需對適于情節的某些特征加以強調,使人物在新環境中顯得真實可信,從而賦予他們生命。

However , the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that hawthorne poses the question of good and evil in man but withholds his answer , and he goes not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dream 然而,故事的安排使得我們覺得霍桑有意將善與惡的問題留給讀者而保留自己的答案,并且他本人也不會去裁決那夜的審判事件是否真實,或純屬夢境虛構。

“ the figments of our imaginations , the creatures we push out of our minds into the real world are fully capable of pushing back with surprising consequences , “ jeremy salter , one of the us book ' s three authors said 這本書共有三位作者,其中一位作者杰里米索特說: “我們憑空虛構出來的人物和形象反過來會對我們自身產生意想不到的影響。 ”

“ the figments of our imaginations , the creatures we push out of our minds into the real world are fully capable of pushing back with surprising consequences , “ jeremy salter , one of the us book s three authors said 這本書共有三位作者,其中一位作者杰里米索特說: “我們憑空虛構出來的人物和形象反過來會對我們自身產生意想不到的影響。 ”

“ the figments of our imaginations , the creatures we push out of our minds into the real world are fully capable of pushing back with surprising consequences , “ jeremy salter , one of the us book ' s three authors said 這本書共有三位作者,其中一位作者杰里米?索特說: “我們憑空虛構出來的人物和形象反過來會對我們自身產生意想不到的影響。 ”

Those who have even a preliminary acquaintance with the structure and laws of the inner spheres of existence know that complete isolation of human beings is a figment of the imagination 一個人哪怕對存在的精神領域的結構和規律只有初步知識,也知道人類完全孤立只不過是憑空想象。

To anyone else , philemon might be perceived as a figment of jung ' s imagination , or evidence of madness 對于其他人,腓利門也許是容格想像的一個虛構人物,或者是瘋狂的跡象。

If they trace any accounts , they ' ll wind up chasing a figment of my imagination 如果他們跟蹤到什么,他們呢也僅僅只是在捕風捉影

Was that girl wearing no blouse or was it a figment of my imagination 是那姑娘沒穿上衣呢,還是我憑空想象的事?

A figment of heggs ' imagination and i ' ll call offthe suit 靠海格斯的想象虛構的,我就撤消起訴

He ' s a figment . a cipher . a jabberwocky 他是虛擬的,一段程序碼,完全沒意義

This could only be a figment of the restless brain of aunt lavinia, who every one knew to be woman of powerful imagination . 這一切只能是拉維尼婭姑母的異想天開。人們都知道姑母是個想象力異常豐富的女人。

Yes. you are a figment of the past ! 對,你是過去的幻影!