那个故事是他编造的。

He cooked up the story.

youdao

某些故事可能不是真实的，人物角色或经历可能是编造的。

The particular stories might not be true and some of the characters or events might be made up.

youdao

在我这个行业里，你会听到很多关于天赋的说法，这主要是我们为了给自己找借口偷懒而编造的说辞。

In my line of work, you'll hear a lot about talent, which is an idea we mostly invented to give ourselves an excuse to be lazy.

youdao

Things are not "made up" in Frost, "not made up" in the sense of imagined, called up out of thin air, like fairies and elves.

弗罗斯特的诗歌里没有编造，没有想象，像仙女和精灵那样的凭空想象。

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I don't know how much was made up for the film.

我不知道这部电影有多少内容是编造的。

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Milton lends a special horror, I think, to this image of a blind Fury, and I hope you will agree with those critics -- I didn't make this up - who find embedded in these lines something like a figurative intimation of castration.

弥尔顿给这个暴怒形象添加了特殊的恐怖色彩，我希望你们同意--这不是我编造的,-有评论家发现这几句字里行间,在暗喻阉割。

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