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fig·ment /ˈfɪɡmənt/ noun a figment of somebody’s imagination 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 Corpusfigment• Whether the circle of churches exists, or whether it is a figment of a map-maker's imagination remains to be seen.• True, the commercially successful electric car is still a figment.• No one ever turned up such a child, whose existence seems to have been yet another figment of fertile right-wing imaginations.• Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.• He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment, a thing that was no longer real.Origin figment (1400-1500) Latin figmentum, from fingere; → FIGURE1fig·ment nounChineseSyllable that Corpus you exist but is real, not does something imagine |