de·lu·sion
noun/dɪˈluːʒn/
/dɪˈluːʒn/
- [countable] a false belief or opinion about yourself or your situation
错觉；谬见；妄想 - Don't go getting delusions of grandeur (= a belief that you are more important than you actually are).
不要变得妄自尊大。 - He was suffering from paranoid delusions and hallucinations.
他患有偏执妄想和幻觉。 - Love can be nothing but a delusion.
爱情只能是一种错觉。 - under the delusion that… They are under the delusion that the virus has gone away.
他们误以为病毒已经消失。
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentc2- He dismissed the so-called miracle as a collective delusion.
他认为这个所谓的奇迹只是一种集体错觉，不值一提。 - He had no delusions about his feelings for Kate.
他对自己对凯特的情感不抱幻想。 - He seemed to be under the delusion that he would make his fortune within a few years.
他似乎幻想着几年内会发财。 - He's under some delusion that I'm going to cheat him.
他有某种错觉，以为我会欺骗他。 - I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
我觉得整个想法只是个愚蠢而危险的错觉。 - She had delusions of persecution.
她有受迫害的错觉。 - Many people with this condition suffer from delusions.
许多患有这种疾病的人会产生妄想。 - She believes her critics are not really important. This is a dangerous and foolish delusion.
她认为她的批评者并不重要。这是一种危险而愚蠢的错觉。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dangerous
- paranoid
- collective
- …
- get
- harbour/harbor
- have
- …
- under a/the delusion
- delusion about
- delusion of
- …
- delusions of grandeur
- Don't go getting delusions of grandeur (= a belief that you are more important than you actually are).
- [uncountable] the act of believing or making yourself believe something that is not true
自欺 - He seems to have retreated into a world of fear and delusion.
他似乎退回到了一个充满恐惧和幻想的世界。 - My mother had a tremendous capacity for delusion.
我母亲特别善于自欺欺人。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dangerous
- paranoid
- collective
- …
- get
- harbour/harbor
- have
- …
- under a/the delusion
- delusion about
- delusion of
- …
- delusions of grandeur
- He seems to have retreated into a world of fear and delusion.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘act of deluding or of being deluded’): from late Latin delusio(n-), from the verb deludere ‘to mock’, from de- (with pejorative force) + ludere ‘to play’.