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mirage

/mi-rahzh/US // mɪˈrɑʒ //UK // (mɪˈrɑːʒ) //

蜃楼,幻觉,海市蜃楼,蜃景

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : something illusory, without substance or reality.
    • : Military. any of a series of supersonic, delta-wing, multirole French fighter-bombers.

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Examples

  • The moment was a mirage of the kind of glory that Wall and the Wizards wanted to achieve.

  • 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.

  • This may surprise some people who assume all of the gains are a mirage.

  • 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.

  • There are landmarks and there are mirages, and the mirages need maps most of all.

  • I found it beckoning, almost like a mirage, in the form of the Vino Volo wine bar.

  • In Turkey the Qataris flew French Mirage jets, not exactly cutting edge equipment but still formidable.

  • Those goals are like a desert mirage, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better the medium will be.

  • The ER—at least on the surface—is a mirage to many of these inconveniences.

  • This week they got Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock over at the Mirage, where the fake volcano blows up every twenty minutes.

  • The vision of the universal happiness seen by the economists has proved a mirage.

  • See that white blot, far out to the east, rising in the evening mirage,—it must be Fort Riley!

  • He longed for and sought his desires always, to see them vanish like a mirage just as they seemed within his grasp.

  • Mirage or no mirage, you must not too implicitly trust your eyes in the fantastic atmosphere of the high plains.

  • It is apart from my purpose to explain the mirage scientifically, and not altogether in my power.