It's a tad difficult to create an entire person.

虚构一个整的人有点难。

A fake man, and if he was a patriarch, he was a fake old man, and old men die.

一个虚构的人而已，如果他是一家之主的话，那也是虚构的一家之主，而且他还死了。

A " novelist, " of course, is a person who writes fictional books.

“小说家”当然是写虚构书籍的人。

Well, actually, the fictional guy on my fake dating profile is late.

好吧，实际上，我虚约会资料中虚构的人迟到了。

This is an imaginary person, kind of like the host of ESL Podcast - big, ugly!

这是一个虚构的人，有点像ESL Podcast的主持人——又大又丑！

Santa Claus is the make-believe person who brings gifts to children on the night before Christmas.

圣诞老人是一个虚构的人， 在圣诞节前一天晚上给孩子们带来礼物。

You also want to check that the journal's editorial board lists actual experts with full affiliations, not just made-up people.

你还需要检查该期刊的编辑委员会是否列出了有整隶属关系的真正专家，而不仅仅是虚构的人。

Marketers get really into this concept of creating personas  and often even give these imaginary people names and mock up pictures of them.

营销人员非常热衷于创建人物角色的概念，他们甚至经常给这些虚构的人起名字，并模拟他们的照片。

In the Chinese room, there is a person, hypothetical person, who does not understand Chinese, but he has along with him a set of instructions that tell him how to respond in Chinese to any Chinese sentence.

在中文房间里，有一个人，虚构的人，他/她不懂中文，但他/她眼前有一套指令，告诉他/她如何用中文回应任何中文语句。