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小词详解 | mirage
mirage 英 [ˈmɪrɑːʒ] 美 [məˈrɑːʒ]
Hence the refrain of some that low unemployment is a mirage: stronger economic growth, they say, could draw plenty of folk back into work.
因此一些人反复表示,低失业率是一种幻象。他们说,强劲的经济增长能吸引许多人重返职场。
——《经济学人》That dream is turning out mostly to be a mirage.
这个梦最终被证明基本是镜花水月。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 海市蜃楼
透过我半睁半闭的双眼,我看到了海市蜃楼。过了一会儿,一股新鲜空气使我头脑清醒过来。
Through my half-closed eyelids I began to see mirages. Moments later, a whiff of fresh air cleared my head.
那个酷爱读书的人满怀着寻求社会正义的愿望。但对他而言,选举获胜只是一个可望而不可即的美好幻景。
The avid reader was imbued with a desire for social justice. But for him, electoral victory was just a distant mirage.那个温顺的女孩是他的幻觉,是他那忧郁不安的头脑妄想出来的。
The docile girl was a mirage, cast up by his troubled mind.
Beside her mirage of datepalms a handsome woman in Turkish costume stands before him.
眼前出现了一位亭亭玉立、身着土耳其装束的美女,旁边是几棵枣椰树的蜃景。
illusion: a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses delusion: an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder hallucination: an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present