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mirage n.海市蜃楼；幻想 (1) 海市蜃楼是一种视错觉。(2) 天色虽早，朦胧的海市蜃楼却已经出现。(3) 也许我们都只是在追逐一个幻想。(4) 我看着那水壶就好象看着一个幻想。 A mirage is created when light is distorted by layers of hot air. A mirage that looks like a body of water is actually an image of the sky. Even if you don’t spend much time in the desert, you may have noticed this phenomenon when driving on the highway on a hot day. Under certain conditions you can see in the distance what appears to be a puddle of water across the road. You’ll never reach the puddle, however: it’s just an illusion. The word mirage can be used in a more general sense to refer to anything that is unattainable or a false perception.

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英 ['mɪrɑːʒ] 美 [mə'rɑːʒ] (1) A mirage is an optical illusion.(2) Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up.(3) Perhaps we are all just chasing a mirage.(4) I stared at the canteen as if it were a mirage. Next time you’re traveling in the desert, make sure you carry plenty of water. That enticing pool of water you see far away in the distance may be a mirage, or an optical illusion. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]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. 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。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[N-COUNT 可数名词]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.   [usu sing]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。The objectivity of science is a mirage.所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。

英语单词	mirage
英美音标	英 ['mɪrɑːʒ] 美 [mə'rɑːʒ]
中文释义	n.海市蜃楼；幻想
英语例句	(1) A mirage is an optical illusion. (2) Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up. (3) Perhaps we are all just chasing a mirage. (4) I stared at the canteen as if it were a mirage.
中文例句	(1) 海市蜃楼是一种视错觉。 (2) 天色虽早，朦胧的海市蜃楼却已经出现。 (3) 也许我们都只是在追逐一个幻想。 (4) 我看着那水壶就好象看着一个幻想。
vocabulary简明	Next time you’re traveling in the desert, make sure you carry plenty of water. That enticing pool of water you see far away in the distance may be a mirage, or an optical illusion.
vocabulary扩展	A mirage is created when light is distorted by layers of hot air. A mirage that looks like a body of water is actually an image of the sky. Even if you don’t spend much time in the desert, you may have noticed this phenomenon when driving on the highway on a hot day. Under certain conditions you can see in the distance what appears to be a puddle of water across the road. You’ll never reach the puddle, however: it’s just an illusion. The word mirage can be used in a more general sense to refer to anything that is unattainable or a false perception.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]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. 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。 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 [N-COUNT 可数名词]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. [usu sing] 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。 The objectivity of science is a mirage. 所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。

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