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mirage 蜃氣樓

Word of the Day : October 24, 2021

mirage

海市蜃樓；幻影

noun muh-RAHZH

What It Means

A mirage is a reflection of light that can trick the mind into interpreting a sight as an apparently solid thing. The word is also used figuratively to describe things that are illusory or unattainable.

A mirage 是光的反射，可以誘使頭腦将景象解釋為表面上的實物。 這個詞也被比喻性地用來描述虛幻或無法實現的事物。

Examples

What the shipwrecked crew thought was a ship on the horizon turned out to be a mirage.

遇難船員以為海平線上有一艘船，結果是海市蜃樓。

The team's early season hopes for a first-place finish are now a mirage.

球隊在賽季初獲得第一名的希望現在變成了泡影。

"Kozell spent the first day after the storm patching holes in his own roof, and he's been helping clients ever since. A day off is a distant mirage for workers like him and Hasan, who predict they'll be patching roofs for weeks to come." — Matt Sledge, The Times-Picayune, 6 Sept. 2021

“暴風雨過後的第一天，科澤爾在自己屋頂上修補洞，從那時起他就一直在幫助客戶。對于像他和哈桑這樣的工人來說，休息一天是遙不可及的幻想，他們預測他們将在未來幾周内修補屋頂.”

Did You Know?

Mirage comes from the French verb mirer ("to look at"), which is related to mirror. Mirer, itself, is from Latin mīrārī ("to wonder at"), the ancestor of the commonly seen admire, miracle, and marvel.

Mirage來自法語動詞 mirer（“to look at「看」”），與mirror有關。 Mirer 本身來自拉丁語 mīrārī（“ the wonder at「驚奇」”），它是常見的admire「欽佩」、miracle「神迹」和 marvel「奇迹」的祖先。

Quiz

Unscramble the letters to create a word for an illusion of the mind that comes from the name of a monster from Greek mythology: AHRIEMC.

chimera「空想」

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