late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere 'form, contrive'. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent
臆造的事物;虚构的事物 If you say that something is a figment of someone's imagination, you mean that it does not really exist and that they are just imagining it.
【搭配模式】：Ns inflect
The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
袭击可不是我凭空想象出来的。
Noun
1. a contrived or fantastic idea;
"a figment of the imagination"
1. The figure vanished as silently as if it had simply been a figment of her imagination.
添加到我的生词本
