mirage

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. figuratively
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To cause to appear as or like a mirage. transitive
    — All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.

词形变化

mirages plural mirages present,singular,third-person miraging participle,present miraged participle,past miraged past

词汇关系

衍生词
gravitational mirage mirageless miragelike miragy red mirage

词源

词源 1
An unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
词源 2
An unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
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