fiction
英 ['f?k?(?)n]
美 ['f?k??n]
助記提示
1. g -------------------> ct.
2. figment => fiction.
中文詞源
fiction 小說來自PIE*dheigh, 捏造，制造，形成，詞源同dough, figure. 用來指小說。
英文詞源
- fiction
- fiction: [14] Fiction is literally ‘something made or invented’ – and indeed that was the original meaning of the word in English. It seems always to have been used in the sense ‘story or set of “facts” invented’ rather than of some concrete invention, however, and by the end of the 16th century it was being applied specifically to a literary genre of ‘invented narrative’. The word comes via Old French from Latin fictiō, a derivative of the verb fingere ‘make, shape’, from which English also gets effigy, faint, feign, figure, and figment.
=> effigy, faint, feign, figure, figment - fiction (n.)
- early 15c., ficcioun, "that which is invented or imagined in the mind," from Old French ficcion "dissimulation, ruse; invention, fabrication" (13c.) and directly from Latin fictionem (nominative fictio) "a fashioning or feigning," noun of action from past participle stem of fingere "to shape, form, devise, feign," originally "to knead, form out of clay," from PIE *dheigh- "to build, form, knead" (source also of Old English dag "dough;" see dough).
Meaning "prose works (not dramatic) of the imagination" is from 1590s, at first often including plays and poems. Narrower sense of "the part of literature comprising novels and short stories based on imagined scenes or characters" is by early 19c. The legal sense (fiction of law) is from 1580s. A writer of fiction could be a fictionist (1827). The related Latin words included the literal notion "worked by hand," as well as the figurative senses of "invented in the mind; artificial, not natural": Latin fictilis "made of clay, earthen;" fictor "molder, sculptor" (also borrowed 17c. in English), but also of Ulysses as "master of deceit;" fictum "a deception, falsehood; fiction."
雙語例句
- 1. Fiction takes up a large slice of the publishing market.
- 小說在出版市場上占了很大的份額。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Naomi's mothering experiences are poignantly described in her fiction.
- 娜奧米把她當母親的經歷字字辛酸地寫進了小說。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The line between fact and fiction is becoming blurred.
- 事實和虛構之間的界限正變得模糊起來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances.
- 她喜歡的小說是大部頭的歷史言情故事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The border between science fact and science fiction gets a bit fuzzy.
- 科學事實和科幻小說之間的界限變得有點兒模糊了。
來自柯林斯例句