mirages

英 [ˈmɪrɑːʒɪz]

美 [məˈrɑʒəz]

n.  幻景; 海市蜃楼; 幻想; 妄想
mirage的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 海市蜃楼;幻境
  Amirageis 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• N-COUNT 妄想;幻想
  If you describe something as amirage, you mean that it is not real or true, although it may seem to be.
  1. 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。
  2. The objectivity of science is a mirage.
     所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。

双语例句

• 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。
• Of course, the Moon's distorted appearance is due to the unusual bending ( refraction) of light rays creating multiple images or mirages, similar to sunset and sunrise mirages.
  其实，月亮特殊的外观是来自大气折射所产生的多重影像或称蜃像，类似日出或日落时所见到的蜃像。
• I'm having another one of those mirages.
  我看到了另一个海市蜃楼。
• The apparent reduction in income per capita is a mirages 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。
• As the sun sets, bringing minimal relief from the heat, the mirages roar off, and huge flocks of egrets fly over and settle in the trees in the hotel garden.
  日落时分，炎热只有最轻微的缓解，幻影战斗机咆哮着远去，大群的白鹭在天空盘旋，落到酒店花园的树上。
• A singer's training can be an uncertain road rife with wrong turns and mirages.
  歌唱家的训练可能是一条充满错误转折和幻想的不确定的道路。
• Finally, the different types of dynamic mirages under different conditions, including mirages on ocean surface, in desert, and on concrete road, are realistically rendered, including dynamic change of mirages.
  在此基础上，绘制出不同条件下不同海市蜃楼的真实感场景，包括海洋、沙漠、公路上的蜃景，并模拟了蜃景的动态变化。
• People sometimes see mirages in the desert.
  人们有时会在沙漠中看到海市蜃楼。
• Approaching the camp up a rutted, dusty track, the place at first seemed deserted with the heat still enough to create mirages and haze even in the supposedly cooler temperatures of early autumn.
  沿着一条步满车辙的土路走近难民营，这里乍看上去了无人迹，除了在这本该凉爽的初秋时节里依旧足以激起蜃景和雾气的热浪。
• The yardang is of magnificent scenery, giant-scale and strange mirages and is treasures of geoheritage landscape resources.
  它们色彩绚丽、规模宏大、形态奇特、场面壮观，构成新疆地质地貌类地质遗迹景观资源中的精品。