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To hallucinate is to see, hear, feel, or smell something that is not really there. The brain makes the sight or the sound, but the room does not.
To hallucinate ishallucinate指的是 to see, hear, feel, or smell something that is not really there看到、聽到、感覺到，或聞到其實不存在的東西 The brain makes the sight or the sound是大腦製造出那個畫面或聲音 but the room does not但那個空間裡其實沒有
A very high fever, too little sleep, certain drugs, or some kinds of illness can make a person hallucinate. It is different from a dream, because the person is awake.
A very high fever, too little sleep, certain drugs, or some kinds of illness高燒、睡太少、某些藥物，或某些疾病 can make a person hallucinate都可能讓人產生幻覺 It is different from a dream這跟做夢不一樣 because the person is awake因為這個人是醒著的
It is also different from making up a picture on purpose — you cannot switch it off, and in that moment it feels real.
It is also different from making up a picture on purpose這也跟故意想像一個畫面不一樣 you cannot switch it off你沒辦法把它關掉 and in that moment it feels real而且當下感覺是真的
People also stretch the word as a joke: “I must be hallucinating” when they see something they cannot believe. The joke is light; the serious use belongs with doctors, illness, and drugs.
People also stretch the word as a joke大家也會開玩笑地延伸這個字 I must be hallucinating像是說「I must be hallucinating（我一定是產生幻覺了）」 when they see something they cannot believe在看到難以置信的東西時 The joke is light這種玩笑話很輕鬆 the serious use belongs with doctors, illness, and drugs認真的用法則跟醫生、疾病，和藥物有關
組成First recorded in 1604. Borrowed from Latin hallucinatus (also written alucinatus), from alucinor, “to dream,” plus the English verb ending -ate.
同家族的字
- hallucinationthe noun: the thing, or the experience itself
- hallucinogena substance that can make a person hallucinate
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hallucinateverb/həˈl(j)uːsɪneɪt/
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To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.
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To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.
- In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it.
- Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information. […] Broadly speaking, we say that a neural dialogue system is guilty of hallucinating whenever it generates a factual sentence that is not supported by a valid path in a k-hop subgraph G k c ⊂ G of the original KG anchored around a context entity c. […] The first module flags and masks out hallucinated entities in an existing response and can be trained offline.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。