要你當真的假話
同樣是編出來的，但少了「大家都知道」這層默契：對方希望你把它當成事實。
a false pretense · noun · B1
Something made up and told to you as if it were true.
虛構的事／假象
核心畫面
Picture a story everyone knows was made up — the people in it never lived, and nobody minds. Fiction names that made-up world. Take away the shared agreement that it is invented, and you get the second use: something made up that you are meant to swallow as real.
可以想成：一個大家都知道是編出來的故事——裡面的人沒有真的活過，但沒有人覺得被騙，因為說故事和聽故事的雙方都心知肚明…更多收起
可以想成：一個大家都知道是編出來的故事——裡面的人沒有真的活過，但沒有人覺得被騙，因為說故事和聽故事的雙方都心知肚明。fiction 指的就是這個「講好的虛構世界」。把「大家都知道是編的」這個默契拿掉，剩下的就是第二個用法：同樣是編出來的，但人家要你當真。From the picture
Also in this word
invented stories · noun · B1
Books and stories that tell about imaginary people and events, not real ones.
小說／虛構文學
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fictionnoun/ˈfɪkʃən/
- 1
literaturemediapublishingLiterary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- I am a great reader of fiction.
- the fiction section of the library
- 2
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
- 3
lawA legal fiction.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。