Picture a in a workshop. Raw material lies on it, and someone cuts it, shapes it and joins the pieces until a finished thing stands there that did not exist before. The Latin behind the word, fabrica, is exactly that workshop. Everything the word does is a version of that bench: metal parts made to a drawing, a whole chicken broken down into even pieces, and — with the material swapped for words — a story built to be believed.
可以想成一張工作台。上面放著材料，有人把它切開、彎好、接起來，最後台上多出一件本來不存在的成品。這個字的拉丁來源 fabrica，指的就是工匠的作坊。它所有的用法都是同一張工作台的不同版本：照圖做出來的金屬零件、被分解成大小一致部位的一整隻雞，還有一種——材料換成了話，做出來的是一套要讓人相信的說法。
From the word’s history
From Latin fabrica (a workshop, a building) through fabricor, so the word starts at the workbench: making a finished thing out of material.
來自拉丁文 fabrica（作坊、建築），經由 fabricor 進入英文，所以出發點就在工作台上：把材料做成成品。
Wiktionary, "fabricate"
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