第三人称复数：mirages
1. 海市蜃楼;幻境
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.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
2. 妄想;幻想
If you describe something as a mirage, you mean that it is not real or true, although it may seem to be.
e.g. 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。
e.g. The objectivity of science is a mirage.
所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。
1. A panel of government ministers chose the group from four consortia, which included top casino firms Harrah's Entertainment Inc and MGM Mirage and their local partners.
2. He says the city stands between the desert and sea and looks like a mirage, a phenomenon that is common in the area.
3. SJM and an MGM Mirage partnership are the only two of Macao's six gaming concession holders that have no active plans on Cotai.
4. Quinn, the art consultant in charge of MGM Mirage's acquisitions.
5. The financial mirage in US housing and credit burgeoned on the incentives lending officers were given for signing up more debtors.
6. A Mirage 2000 warplane crashed in the Aegean sea in a training flight in September but the pilot escaped injuries by ejecting to safety.
7. But the economic prosperity built on these figures is nothing but a mirage.
8. He stayed overnight at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and was released early Monday.
9. But that would make war inevitable and result in the death of more innocent people, making global peace a mirage.
10. mirage
10. Have you ever captured your shadow or seen tarmac melting as if in a mirage?
noun
1. mirage是什么意思
1. something illusory and unattainable
2. an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects