0 something that seems real but is not -- 凭空想象的事物，臆造的东西
Was it just a figment of my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room? 是我的想象还是我真听到了约翰在另一间房里说话？
He thought that the real danger was that the shadow would be taken for the reality; that commercialism was a figment of the imagination.
It is a figment of imagination, and that money will not immediately exist.
That conjures up very pleasant pictures and figments of the imagination.
Nor can it be used, say, to dismiss bounded rationality anomalies as figments of semantic misunderstandings.
Some think it obvious that values are figments of our imagination or projections of our feelings, that talk about values is mere exclamation or prescription.
Was it a figment of the naval correspondent's imagination?
That provision has not come out of the blue as a sort of figment of the imagination.
The bowler-hatted, striped-trousered, brolly-carrying, tea-drinking and red-tape-wrapping caricature of the civil servant is a figment of the cartoonists' vivid imagination.
