confabulate

When my grandfather cannot remember something, he tends to confabulate, filling the gap with an invented detail.

当我爷爷想不起某事时，他往往会无意识地进行虚构，用一个编造的细节填补空白。

用法提示：confabulate 用作不及物动词，表示“无意识虚构记忆、用想象填补记忆空白”。

At dinner, she confabulated about her day at school, mixing real events with things she had only dreamed.

吃晚饭时，她虚构了在学校的一天，把真实的事和她只梦见过的内容混在一起。

用法提示：confabulated 是 confabulate 的过去式，后接 about 引出虚构的内容，表示“进行虚构”。

The teacher suspected that the boy was confabulating, because his account of the summer holiday mixed real places with imaginary ones.

老师怀疑那个男孩在无意识地进行虚构，因为他对暑假的叙述把真实的地方和想象的地方混在了一起。

用法提示：was confabulating 是 confabulate 的过去进行时，表示在叙述中无意识地进行虚构。