fiction

复数：fictions

1. [U][C]小说 type of literature (e.g. novels, stories) describing imaginary events and people
2. [C]虚构; 想象; 杜撰 thing that is invented or imagined and not strictly true

• read a fiction读小说

• complete fiction彻头彻尾的虚构
• detective fiction侦探小说
• downright〔pure〕 fiction纯属虚构
• legal fiction法律上的假定
• light fiction情节轻松的小说
• modern〔popular〕 fiction现代〔通俗〕小说
• realistic〔romantic〕 fiction现实〔浪漫〕主义小说

• science fiction科学幻想小说

science fiction科幻小说

stranger than fiction奇幻人生（电影名称）

horror fiction恐怖小说

legal fiction法律虚拟（指法律事务上为权宜计在无真实依据情况下所作的假定）

science fiction film科幻片

pulp fiction低俗小说（电影名称）；黑色追缉令

crime fiction n. 犯罪小说

1. Real life is sometimes stranger than fiction.
   现实生活有时比小说还离奇。
2. I like to read science fiction.
   我喜欢读科幻小说。
3. It's important to distinguish fact from fiction.
   把现实与虚构区分开来是很重要的。
4. His testimony is a complete fiction.
   他的证言全是虚构。
5. Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality.
   她的酒杯是杜撰出来的，但是这酒倒是真的。
6. As operating devices, perpetual-motion machines are the province of crackpot science and science fiction.
   作为工作装置来看，永动机属于科学空想和科学上的杜撰。