mirage
n. 海市蜃楼,幻景
A mirage is something which you see when it is extremely hot, for example in the desert, and which appears to be quite near but is actually a long way away or does not really exist.
Through my half-closed eyelids I began to see mirages...
透过我半睁半闭的双眼,我看到了海市蜃楼。
It hovered before his eyes like the mirage of an oasis.
它在他眼前晃动,好像海市蜃楼里的绿洲。
If you describe something as a mirage, you mean that it is not real or true, although it may seem to be.
The girl was a mirage, cast up by his troubled mind...
那个女孩是他的幻觉,是他那忧郁不安的头脑妄想出来的。
The objectivity of science is a mirage.
所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。
1. an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
2. something illusory and unattainable
Is the recovery a mirage or for real?
这次的恢复是个幻象还是真实存在的?
Some people, all just a mirage, the beautiful illusion of his love.
有些人, 终究只是一场[海市蜃楼], 美丽了自己对爱情的幻想.
A mirage is an optical Illusionfounded on waves of heat.
海市蜃楼是由大气热浪潮产生的一种光学幻觉.
B : Oh , be cool about it . It is just a mirage.
不要那么激动, 只不过是海市蜃楼而已.
If you are lucky enough, you may be able to see a mirage from Penglai Pavilion.
如果你运气好的话, 能从蓬莱阁上看到海市蜃楼.