英 [ˈfɪkʃ(ə)n] 美 [ˈfɪkʃ(ə)n]
n. 小说；虚构的事，谎言；杜撰，编造
复数fictions
fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/ CET4 TEM4
不可数名词 Fiction refers to books and stories about imaginary people and events, rather than books about real people or events. 小说
Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction.
移民故事一直是小说的流行主题。
→see alsoscience fiction
不可数名词 A statement or account that is fiction is not true. 虚构
The truth or fiction of this story has never been truly determined.
这个故事是真实还是虚构，一直没有定论。
可数名词 If something is a fiction, it is not true, although people sometimes pretend that it is true. 假象
Total recycling is a fiction.
完全回收利用是假象。
a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
a deliberately false or improbable account
同义词： fabrication / fable
作品-引用次数：373
His works include, in addition to fiction, a substantial body of literary criticism.
他的作品包括了大量而充实的文学理论著作。
小说-引用次数：132
The kinetic description is an indispensable descriptive tool in fiction.
体态语描写是小说中进行人物塑造必不可少的文学手段。
参考来源小说中体态语英译研究
拟制-引用次数：61
Do fiction have any risk? Whether fiction behavior needs a norm etc?
拟制的存在有无正当根据,现有拟制性规定是否合理,拟制有无风险,拟制行为是否需要规范等,学界还缺乏系统研究,本文对这些问题进行了初步探讨。
参考来源论刑事立法拟制（研究生论文）
假定，法律上的推定
虚拟-引用次数：4
Besides,the fiction documentary is the one which will be studied.
除了以上两种类型,还有一种“虚拟纪录片”也被列为本文所探究的范围。 从严格定义上说,“虚拟纪录片”并不是真正的纪录片,但本文将其进行讨论主要是为了严格界定纪录片的概念和真实性。
参考来源从技术到艺术的变革
虚构
假定
你或许不知道小说是什么，小说（Fiction）就是……
... novel长篇小说 fiction虚构小说 non-fiction纪实文学 ...
... fictile a塑造的；可塑造的；黏土制的；陶器的；n陶制品 fiction n虚构；杜撰；捏造；小说；明知不符和事实而习惯上仍采用的假设 fictional a虚构的；小说的 ...
fictionally 编造地，杜撰地
fictitiously 虚构地；假地
fictionalize 使小说化；把…编成小说
The book intermingles fact and fiction.
这本书事实和虚构并存。
The book intermingles fact with fiction.
这本书事实和虚构并存。
I read everything from fiction to history.
我从小说到历史书什么书都读。
But the NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are the closest things we have to the space robots of science fiction.
VOA : special.2010.07.28
It had been my accidental reading of fiction and literary criticism that had invoked in me vague glimpses of life's possibilities.
我偶尔会读小说和文学评述,这让我隐约地窥探到,生活的可能性，“
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So I'm actually writing my own fiction, and no, it's not easy. But you can actually learn from, if you read other writers.
我现在也正在写自己的小说，真的不容易。但是你可以从你以前阅读的作品中学到很多。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 写作课程比较难
You can listen to part four of the science fiction story "A Princess of Mars" on our program AMERICAN STORIES this Saturday.
VOA : special.2010.07.28
It contains science-fiction violence and also language that may be inappropriate for children under the age of thirteen.
VOA : special.2011.06.20
It was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2006 by The Washington Post.
That fiction, I believe, has combined with the trend in society for "extreme" behavior.
Dr. Hammad Azzam is the author of Shifting Borderlines: How Science Fiction is Becoming Science.