c. 1500, "manufacturing, construction," from Middle French fabrication and directly from Latin fabricationem (nominative fabricatio) "a structure, construction, a making," noun of action from past participle stem of fabricare "to make, construct" (see fabricate). Meaning "lying, falsehood, forgery" is from 1790.
双语例句
1. This story is total fabrication.
这种说法纯属捏造。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His story was a complete fabrication.
他的故事纯属虚构.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. This is a sheer fabrication.
这完全是凭空捏造.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. It is a pure fabrication.
纯粹是假造事实.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. More than 200 improvements, many of them major, were made in the design and fabrication of the shuttle.
