mirage

英 ['mɪrɑːʒ] 美 [mə'rɑːʒ]

• n. 海市蜃楼；幻想

英英释义

Noun:

1. an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

2. something illusory and unattainable

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. A mirage is an optical illusion.
   海市蜃楼是一种视错觉。
2. Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up.
   天色虽早，朦胧的海市蜃楼却已经出现。
3. Perhaps we are all just chasing a mirage.
   也许我们都只是在追逐一个幻想。
4. I stared at the canteen as if it were a mirage.
   我看着那水壶就好象看着一个幻想。

经典引文

• It was a mirage he had seen in that river village, a trick of the heat and light.

  出自： R. Rendell

词汇搭配

• superior mirage 上蜃景
• mirage effect 蜃景效应

近反义词

【近义词】

• delusion 错觉
• vapor 蒸汽
• daydream 白日梦
• hallucination 幻觉
• optical illusion 幻觉; 错觉
• illusion 错觉
• vision 视力
• fantasy 幻想
• figment 虚构的东西
• phantasm 幻像