- 1沙漠中常見的「海市蜃樓」，也可比喻虛假的希望或假象。
A mirage is something your eyes seem to see that is not really there, usually caused by hot air bending light — like seeing what looks like water far away on a hot road or in the desert, when there is no water at all. People also use 'mirage' for a hope, plan, or promise that looks real and but turns out to be false or impossible to reach.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from French mirage around 1812.
約 1812 年借自法文 mirage。
組成From French 'mirage,' from 'mirer' (to look at, to reflect), going back to Latin 'mirari,' which meant 'to wonder at' or 'to be amazed by.'
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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miragenoun/mɪˈɹɑːʒ/
- 1
An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
- 2
An illusion.
- I remember hearing, that in the East the clear and azure waters seem to flow before the weary and parched traveller; yet a little further, and on he urges his weary way, but in vain—the fair stream is a delusion. Even thus happiness is the mirage which leads us over the desert of life, ever fated to end in deceit and disappointment.
mirageverb/mɪˈɹɑːʒ/
- 1
To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
- All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.
- The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.
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