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单词 mirage
释义
mirage
(mɪrɑːʒ )
Word forms: mirages
1. countable noun
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.
It hovered before his eyes like the mirage of an oasis. [+ of]
Synonyms: illusion, vision, hallucination, pipe dream  
2. countable noun [usually singular]
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.
The objectivity of science is a mirage.
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