- 1憑空想像出來的東西。幾乎都出現在 a figment of one's imagination 這個搭配裡。
A figment is something you only imagine. You feel it is real; it is not there. In actual English you almost always meet it tied up in one phrase: a figment of your imagination (or his, or hers). People rarely say “a figment” all by itself, as if it were a thing you could point to. It is a slightly word, kinder than calling someone a liar: it says the mind made a picture, not that the person tried to trick you. It is not pigment, which is colour. It comes from Latin figmentum, “something made”, from a verb that also gave English fiction, feign, and feint — all of them about making, shaping, or pretending.
組成From Late Latin figmentum, “anything made, a fiction”, from fingō, “make, form, feign”.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
figmentnoun/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/
- 1
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
- a figment of one's imagination
- He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
- 2
obsoleteAn item which has been crafted.
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