mirage基本解释
n.海市蜃楼;幻想
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第三人称复数:mirages
基本词汇
n.海市蜃楼;幻想
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第三人称复数:mirages
mirage的近义词
noun
1. something illusory and unattainable
2. an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
1. 海市蜃楼;幻境
A mirage is something which you see when it is extremely hot, for example in the desert, and which appears to be quite near but is actually a long way away or does not really exist.
e.g. Through my half-closed eyelids I began to see mirages...
透过我半睁半闭的双眼,我看到了海市蜃楼。
e.g. It hovered before his eyes like the mirage of an oasis.
它在他眼前晃动,好像海市蜃楼里的绿洲。
2. 妄想;幻想
If you describe something as a mirage, you mean that it is not real or true, although it may seem to be.
e.g. The girl was a mirage, cast up by his troubled mind...
那个女孩是他的幻觉,是他那忧郁不安的头脑妄想出来的。
e.g. The objectivity of science is a mirage.
所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。
It was a mirage he had seen in that river village, a trick of the heat and light.
出自:R. Rendell