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A phantasmagoria is a scene that will not sit still: lights, shapes, and feelings keep changing, often in a strange, dream-like way. The word first named an old magic-lantern show that made ghosts seem to move in a dark room. People then stretched it to any wild, shifting mix — a night market, a war, a fever, a city seen from a bus. It does not mean “one ghost.” It means the whole rushing show. The word is literary and a little old-fashioned; you are much more likely to meet it in a novel than in daily talk. When someone uses it, they usually mean the scene feels too much, too fast, and not quite real.
光怪陸離的幻景
組成Borrowed from French phantasmagorie. From Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost / appearance”) plus, probably, either ἀγορά (agorá, “gathering”) or ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak in public”), with a French ending.
同家族的字
- phantasmshares the Greek phántasma piece, “appearance / ghost”
- phantasmagoricalthe adjective made from this noun
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。
phantasmagorianoun/ˌfæntæzməˈɡɒɹi.ə/
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historicalA popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theater entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed.
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A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and color.
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A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
- this mental phantasmagoria
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
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。