novel, romance, fiction, story, fable, tale

名詞 fiction:

1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
2. a deliberately false or improbable account
   同義詞：fabrication, fable

1. Real life is sometimes stranger than fiction.
   現(xiàn)實生活有時比小說還離奇。
2. It's important to distinguish fact from fiction.
   把現(xiàn)實與虛構(gòu)區(qū)分開來是很重要的。
3. His new novel is a must for all lovers of crime fiction.
   他的新小說是罪案小說愛好者必須一讀的。
4. This book intermingled fact with fiction.
   這本書事實和虛構(gòu)情節(jié)交織。
5. Anna was reading a piece of science fiction and completely lost in the book.
   安娜在讀一部科幻小說，完全沉浸在書中。
6. She makes use of people she meets as raw material for her fiction.
   她把她所遇見的人們作為她創(chuàng)作小說的素材。
7. His account of the crime was a complete fiction.
   他所講述的那種罪刑完全是虛構(gòu)的。
8. I like to read science fiction.
   我喜歡讀科幻小說。

fic.tion

n.Abbr. fict.（名詞）縮寫 fict.

An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
捏造，想象：虛構(gòu)的作品或托詞，并不代表是真實的，而是被編造出來的
The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
虛構(gòu)，捏造：虛構(gòu)作品或捏造借口的行為
A lie.
謊話

A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
小說：其內(nèi)容是想象出來的而不一定是以事實為基礎的文學作品
The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.
小說類：由這類文學作品，包括小說和短篇小故事
Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.
【法律】 假定：敘述者故意的把真實的說成不真實的事實

來源：
Middle English ficcioun
中古英語 ficcioun
from Old French fiction
源自 古法語 fiction
from Latin fictiô fictiôn-
源自 拉丁語 fictiô fictiôn-
from fictus [past participle of] fingere [to form] * see dheigh-
源自 fictus [] fingere的過去分詞 [形成] *參見 dheigh-

【引伸】
fic.tional
adj.（形容詞）
fic.tional.ity
fic.tionally
adv.（副詞）
<注釋>.The latest fiction. to most people means the latest novels or storiesrather than the most recently invented pretense or latest lie.All three senses of the wordfiction point back to its source, Latin fictiô, .the action of shaping, a feigning, that which is feigned.. Fictiô in turn was derived from fingere, .to make by shaping, feign, make up or invent a story or excuse.. Our first instance offiction, recorded in a work composed around 42, was used in the sense .invention of the mind, that which is imaginatively invented..It is not a far step from this meaning to the sense .imaginative literature,. first recorded in 599.
.最新的小說.對大多數(shù)人來說是指最新的小說或故事，而不是指最新捏造出的謊言。Fiction 這一詞的所有的三個意思都追溯到拉丁語中的詞源 fictio ，.假裝，偽造，做假的行為。. 反過來fictio 則起源于 fingere， .捏造一個故事或編一個借口.。 我們可以在一部寫于42年前后的作品中找到fiction 的第一個例子， 文中所用的意思是.頭腦中的虛構(gòu)，是充滿想象的虛構(gòu)的.。這一意思已經(jīng)和599年首次記錄的.虛構(gòu)的文學作品.這層意思相去不遠了