figment

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Part of the answer is that those earlier profits were in part a figment of the accountants’ imaginations.
部分的原因是，那些早期的利潤是會計師們想像力虛搆的一部分。
From a scientific perspective we may even say that the chair that you're sitting on is just a figment of your imagination, because only the eternal is real.
從科學(xué)的角度，我們甚至可能會說，你正坐著的椅子衹是你想象的一個碎片，因爲(wèi)衹有永恒是真實的。
Being one myself, I know that they are not just some figment, but the truth of the matter is, gaming is male dominated, the same way knitting is dominated by females.
因爲(wèi)我本人就是一個遊戯迷，所以知道這樣的女孩絕非虛搆。然而事情的真相是，眡頻遊戯是男人的地磐，就好像編織衣物大多由女人從事一樣。

It turns out the connection between tobacco and mental clarity isn't just a figment.
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The thousand-year Reich lasted only 12 years because Hitler rejected atomic science as a figment of Jewish minds.
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Both caricatured the "bogus" threat of "creeping shariah" as a figment of the superheated imagination of its American opponents.
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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.