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mirage是什么意思

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mirage 是什么意思

音标:[ 'mirɑ:ʒ ]  

中文翻译与英英解释

n.
海市蜃楼,蜃景;幻想,妄想。
something illusory and unattainable

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

A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at".

例句与用法

1.The blossoms of life are only a mirage .
生命之花,只是一种空幻。

2.Western liberalism was always a mirage .
西方自由主义永远是一座海市蜃楼。

3.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。

4.Home's assessment now was that a ceasefire in place was a mirage .
霍姆现在认为就地停火纯属空中楼阁。

5.There was for him only one trustworthy road through deceptions and mirages .
对他来说只有一条可靠的路能避开幻想和错觉。

6.He had melted off into the surface-shimmer of the desert, into the mirage .
他在沙漠里闪闪烁烁的热空气里熔化了,在海市蜃楼的幻景里消失了。

7.The mirages had died away and gloomily he ran his eyes along the taut blue line of the horizon .
各种蜃景都已消失了,他郁闷地用眼睛扫着笔直的、蓝蓝的海平线。

8.Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon .
睡意笼罩着他,就象缠绵脑际的蜃楼幻影正在同五光十色的环礁湖景致一比高低。

9.In spite of the plethora of resolutions and declarations of intent the goal of general and complete disarmament remains a mirage .
尽管有不计其数的决议和意向性的声明,而全面和彻底裁军这一目标仍然是海市蜃楼。

10.The apparent reduction in income per capita is a mirage caused by defining the migrants as part of first one nation and then another .
那种表面上的人均收入的降低,乃是由于把移民先是规定为这一国家的一部分,然后又规定为另一国家的一部分而造成的一种假象。

 
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