As operating devices, perpetual-motion machines are the province of crackpot science and science fiction . 作为工作装置来看，永动机属于科学空想和科学上的杜撰。
It helps to isolate certain features common to a great deal of fiction written in the last third of the nineteenth century . 有助于归纳十九世纪后期一大批小说的某些共性。
Asteroid has become commonplace to the readers of interstellar travel stories in science fiction magazines . 对于读过科幻杂志中星际旅行故事的读者来说，小行星已是平淡无味了。
He was especially interested in splitting atoms, which at that point seemed still in the realm of science fiction . 他对分裂原子特别有兴趣，当时好象这仍然是属于科学幻想的领域。
Their essays invade academic journals as well as little magazines, sometimes edging poetry and fiction out of sight . 他们的论文大量涌入学术刊物和一些小杂志，有时把诗和小说都挤没了。
The villagers, anxious for their thousand rupees, gladly connived at the fiction that she had shot the tiger . 村民们急于得到那1000卢比，愿意附合这个编造出来的故事，说是她打死了那只老虎。
These shortcomings should be seen as natural consequences of hawthorne's struggle to find his way in fiction without a guide . 霍桑是在无可借鉴的情况苦苦摸索如何写小说的，这些缺点自属必不可免。
Her child was thirty-one parts white, and he, too, was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro . 她的孩子有三十一份白种血流，但是他也是个奴隶，而且根据荒唐的法律和习俗，仍然是个黑人。
Could a new englander-or any american, at that time write satisfactory fiction in and about a land that had so little experience of the art ? 一个新英格兰人--或是那个时代的任何美国人--住在一个几乎无艺术传统的地方写作，且又要写那个地方，作品能让人满意吗？
On hu yinglin ' s opinion towards fiction ' s historical value 胡应麟小说史料论发微
