| 单词 | non-fiction |
| 释义 | non-ˈfiction
[non- 2.]
Prose writings other than fiction (see fiction 4). Also attrib. or as adj., esp. in non-fiction novel, a novel written about real situations or characters.
1909Westm. Gaz. 2 June 5/2 In Capetown the percentage of non-fiction to the total number of volumes is 58. 1922Holliday & Van Rensselaer Business of Writing 174 Successful works of non-fiction not infrequently are later issued in cheaper forms by the original publisher. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 31 May 248/3 One of the most pleasing features was an increase of 344 issues of non-fiction literature. 1951L. Z. Hobson Celebrity (1953) xvi. 255 In this bad slump, nonfiction's the only thing selling—apart from one or two novels a year. 1965Vogue 15 Oct. 94 [Truman] Capote is an experimenter, an adventurer. His newest experiment is In Cold Blood, a unique book, for it is the first non-fiction novel, a precise documentary, in many ways brilliantly composed. 1967New Mexico Q. Autumn 243 (heading) The ‘non-fiction’ novel. 1969Times 30 Oct. 10/7 Non-fiction paperbacks.
Hence non-ˈfictional a., of, pertaining to, or characteristic of non-fiction.
1903Library World Mar. 227 Mr. Doubleday's allusions to the expedients that have been adopted to advertise the non-fictional wares remind me of another point. 1911A. Bennett Let. 28 July (1966) I. 159 This clause would prevent me from publishing anything whatever non-fictional until they issued the book. 1938D. Baker Young Man with Horn ii. i. 92 The author's right, as author, to furnish himself, as hero, with everything he lacked in his non-fictional life. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising v. 54 Credibility is a dominant consideration in both fictional and non-fictional indirect address. 1967Britannica Bk. of Year 1966 803/3 Nonfictional novel, a completely factual narrative characterized by the use of fictional techniques; nonfictional novelist. |
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