a polite fiction的意思|示意

It is, of course, mostly a polite fiction.

当然，这些都是优雅的虚构情节。

When politicians say they want to talk to their constituents, it is often a polite fiction.

要是政界人士说他们希望和选民交谈，多数情况都是出于礼貌做做样子。

Despite this blow to our dignity we long maintained a polite fiction that we're special enough to merit classification in our own scientific family—the Hominidae.

尽管这对我们的尊严是个打击，长久以来我们还是认为自己高贵，认为自己足够特别以科学谱系把自己划分为优等物种——人科（the Hominidae）。

I read it probably a dozen times from ages 15 to 17, and was amazed to discover that fiction could be, of all things, playful. That it didn't always need to be polite.

在我15到17岁期间大概读了它十几遍，它使我对虚幻类小说能把所有事物都以嬉戏的方式呈现出来的能力感到惊讶。

Gossip, it's just a harmless form of recreation. It's careless talk that deals in polite fiction. It's nasty speculation that's based on not-so-polite fact.

流言，只是无伤大雅的消遣，是温文尔雅的无心漫谈，但不怎么客气的事实却让人心生厌恶。