1N-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
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。
It hovered before his eyes like the mirage of an oasis. [+ of]
VERB + MIRAGE | MIRAGE + VERBVERB + MIRAGE➤see看見海市蜃樓▸➤chase (figurative) 追逐虛無縹緲的東西◇Perhaps we are all just chasing a mirage.也許我們都只是在追逐一個幻想。MIRAGE + VERB➤vanish海市蜃樓/幻想消失