mirage是什么意思，mirage怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
Hence the refrain of some that low unemployment is a mirage : stronger economic growth, they say, could draw plenty of folk back into work. 因此一些人反复表示，低失业率是一种幻象。他们说，强劲的经济增长能吸引许多人重返职场。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[noun] an optical
illusion
caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air
[名词] 海市蜃楼
💡 深入解读
Mirage 一词源自拉丁语mirare（看），与英语单词 mirror （镜子）、 admire （羡慕）、 miracle （奇迹）等同词根 mir （看、惊奇），其基本含义是指“海市蜃楼”，也称“蜃景”。即大气中由于光线的折射作用而形成的一种自然现象，当空气各层的密度有较大的差异时，远处的光线通过密度不同的空气层就发生折射或全反射，这时可以在空中或地面以下看见远处物体的影像。这种现象多在夏天出现在沿海一带或沙漠地方。在中国古代，人们误认为是神话传说中的海怪蜃吐气而成，所以将其叫做蜃景，通称海市蜃楼。比如：透过我半睁半闭的双眼，我看到了海市蜃楼。过了一会儿，一股新鲜空气使我头脑清醒过来。
Through my half-closed eyelids I began to see mirages. Moments later, a
whiff of fresh air cleared my head.到了1812年， mirage 从海市蜃楼这种幻景的概念开始衍生出比喻义“幻想、妄想”，强调当事人未意识到某个自己引以为指引的愿景、梦想、希望、目标等不过是一场幻觉，比如：
那个酷爱读书的人满怀着寻求社会正义的愿望。但对他而言，选举获胜只是一个可望而不可即的美好幻景。
The avid reader was imbued
with a desire for social justice. But for him, electoral victory was just a distant mirage.那个温顺的女孩是他的幻觉，是他那忧郁不安的头脑妄想出来的。
The docile
girl was a mirage, cast up by his troubled mind.
📚 名著用例
Beside her mirage of datepalms a handsome woman in Turkish costume stands before him. 眼前出现了一位亭亭玉立、身着土耳其装束的美女，旁边是几棵枣椰树的蜃景。
— 出自《爱尔兰现代主义作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）于1922年出版的长篇小说《尤利西斯》（ Ulysses ）。下载本书请点击： 原版名著下载 | 尤利西斯（Ulysses）》
🔍 同近义词
- illusion: a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses
- delusion: an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder
- hallucination: an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present
