mirage / mɪˈrɑʒ /

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mirage 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
  2. something illusory, without substance or reality.
  3. Military. any of a series of supersonic, delta-wing, multirole French fighter-bombers.

mirage 近义词

n. 名词 noun

imaginary vision

更多mirage例句

  1. The moment was a mirage of the kind of glory that Wall and the Wizards wanted to achieve.
  2. Virtual reality innovator Jaron Lanier thinks the early dream of free information was a mirage and that making everything free, in exchange for advertising, would lead to a manipulative society.
  3. This may surprise some people who assume all of the gains are a mirage.
  4. Meanwhile, a “red mirage” could happen elsewhere on the map, specifically those states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan that are processing and counting ballots much later.
  5. There are landmarks and there are mirages, and the mirages need maps most of all.
  6. I found it beckoning, almost like a mirage, in the form of the Vino Volo wine bar.
  7. In Turkey the Qataris flew French Mirage jets, not exactly cutting edge equipment but still formidable.
  8. Those goals are like a desert mirage, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better the medium will be.
  9. The ER—at least on the surface—is a mirage to many of these inconveniences.
  10. This week they got Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock over at the Mirage, where the fake volcano blows up every twenty minutes.
  11. The vision of the universal happiness seen by the economists has proved a mirage.
  12. See that white blot, far out to the east, rising in the evening mirage,—it must be Fort Riley!
  13. He longed for and sought his desires always, to see them vanish like a mirage just as they seemed within his grasp.
  14. Mirage or no mirage, you must not too implicitly trust your eyes in the fantastic atmosphere of the high plains.
  15. It is apart from my purpose to explain the mirage scientifically, and not altogether in my power.