1 N-COUNT 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. 海市蜃楼;幻境
SYN illusion, vision, hallucination, pipe dream
2 N-COUNT [usually singular] 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. 妄想;幻想
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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。
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The objectivity of science is a mirage.
所谓科学的客观性是一种幻想。
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