喜樂美語
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    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.

    沙漠中常見的「海市蜃樓」，也可比喻虛假的希望或假象。

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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.'

同家族的字

  • mirrorcomes from the same Latin root mirari, 'to wonder at, to look at'
  • admirealso from mirari — to admire is to look at something with wonder

原始詞典資料3 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。

miragenoun/mɪˈɹɑːʒ/

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    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.

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    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/

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    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.

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。