词汇 | example_english_mirage |
释义 | Examples of mirageThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Pledges were given which radiated with mirages, beautiful visions which never fructified but receded further and further as they were supposed to be drawing nearer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With distortions of light, and mirages, the most commonplace things can be so changed as to be barely recognisable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely we have outlived those mirages of greatness that we long pursued during the twilight of empire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The actual figures that he says will be saved will be mirages rather than reality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are always uncertainties about future energy supplies, forecasts can often turn out to be mere mirages, and it is seldom difficult to discover with hindsight what things went wrong. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would like to join those who are briefly reminding you of a couple of mirages by which you should not allow yourself to be led astray. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The bad referred to the high salinity of the lake, making it unfit to drink, and spirit meant the mirages often seen across the water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The bay is known for the mirages on the horizon during the winter months and for being a spawning ground for the firefly squid. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The title refers to the haze on the horizon and the lyrics talk about mirages and optical illusions caused by the sun. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Mountain climbing is like crossing a desert and imagining mirages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Mirages show an extra image or images of the miraged object, while looming, towering, stooping, and sinking do not. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange mirages of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Occasionally, mirages could be seen above the water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Over hot surfaces during warm days, unstable dry air can lead to significant refraction of the light within the air layer, which causes inferior mirages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. First impressions are less important and photos taken the day before opening a misleading mirage: real life is dirtier, but also truer. Mirages could have been caused by temperature inversions over several deep valleys in the line of sight. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Finally, does a post-colonial archaeology lie like a mirage in the future? The vivid memory of 1980s seems a mirage. Other examples of mirages include what we think of as water evaporating off roads. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Beyond the mirages that his unquestionable talent puts on display for us, one catches a glimpse of a dramatic process of consciousness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The programme takes an original undistorted image of the animal and calculates its appearance when seen as a mirage due to the curved light rays. In any case most of the mirage images presented here are significantly larger than either of these sizes. He found that in 87% of the cases following a superior mirage, the temperature would be higher after 24 hours. My future is a 2-sided mirage on asphalt highway. Without transforming the repressive and partisan state institutions, wishing for free and fair elections is like chasing a mirage. Likewise, self-fulfillment for me requires my responding favorably to my life, not a mirage. Superior mirages also occur at more moderate latitudes, although in those cases they are weaker and tend to be less smooth and stable. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other very minor contributors were birds, light phenomena such as mirages or searchlights, and various miscellany such as flares or kites. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Here it is interesting to note that the described mirages of vessels could only be seen with the aid of a telescope. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She concluded that one might prefer to suppose that the dilemma, and the document, are mirages, that his book is a postmodernist literary device. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yes, we can model it as dynamical change and claim that the step function is a mirage. He was sardonic in his youth and the complex images produced by the desire machines bored him; he could not surrender to the mirages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If there are several temperature layers, several mirages may mix, perhaps causing double images. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Given that chemists were unable to isolate these five elements in pure state, however, his definition of elements remained an analytic/philosophical ideal or a mirage beyond their reach. Figure 2 is something of a mirage. He also created mirages to lure people into his lair (said to be a hole in the ground or a cellar), making it appear as a splendid estate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The most promising direction in which to look for an answer lies in the actual organization of our practices rather than in the mirage of a criterial form of judgement. Just then another ship was seen in the air, only this one was a steamship, and was bottom-upwards, as the captain had said these mirages generally appeared. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Since clouds are closely associated with high levels of water vapor, optical mirages due to water vapor are often rendered undetectable by the accompanying opaque cloud. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is a real medievalist's mirage. There have been persistent rumours, like a kind of continuous mirage dangled before the people, of interest rate cuts coming but never quite arriving. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Please excuse my harsh words, but one can almost talk in terms of a mirage. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have to face reality and cannot set sail in an ever-increasing fleet in search of the mirage of stocks that last for ever. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We know that the 5,000 promised additional officers have proved to be a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many long-term solutions have been offered in the past, but each has vanished as a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, that balanced budget approach is now a dream and a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the next few years it will become a nuclear mirage that will never materialise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The achievement of stability there has so far remained a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are determined not to mistake a mirage for reality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The idea that somehow we can achieve a politically acceptable internal market without considerable social and political protection is a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, our people have been bamboozled into believing that a mirage is nearer, more attainable and more desirable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A little mirage of the coming glories which were to be the reward of this man if he only betrayed his colleagues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are our democratic principles merely a mirage, an ideal that recedes as fast as we can approach it? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English At the moment, this is much more of a mirage than a realistic plan. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The mirage has thus gone but the obstacles remain. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Until that situation is reached, the idea of an internal market in energy is a political mirage. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, although the scheme is nothing more than a mirage for consumers, it can present real difficulties for companies and create severe distortions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If ever there was a mirage, there it was. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until we do so, our defence effort and all our defence plans are based on a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason for this debate is that the party opposite held out a mirage over 13 years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give one example of that mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until they are able to tell us, we shall be entitled to take the view that the subidy is a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are like people in an economic desert walking towards a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Success is only a mirage for those disadvantaged youngsters, and there are very many of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The "break even at all costs" policy is a foolish mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a crying need for a period of stability: that could prove to be illusory and a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one is amongst the 3.25 million unemployed, the rosy part of the picture is a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want a slick, hyped-up public relations mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, if it does, we shall see the mirage disappear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has never been deceived by any shining mirage, however realistic it looked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not believe that peace is indivisible; they still believe in the mirage of safety confined to one little corner of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, the solution to all of this - real reform of the common agricultural policy - is nothing more than a mirage. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The figure of £100 million is at best a mirage—it could never be realised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He talked about what he described as the mirage of 5,000 additional officers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wonder how much the independence of banks is a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unlike the mirage, we ourselves can create reality, but not painlessly, much less by wishful thinking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know that it is a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They seem to be obsessed by this mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even more importantly, it is a mirage because it is incomplete. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the money is a mirage: it does not exist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he appreciate that we recognise, in the run-up to a general election, that he is trying to create a mirage of optimism? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She is rather like a person who has wandered into a desert, sees a mirage in the distance and rushes helter-skelter for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that he will not whittle away at the figure and cause that shareholding to vanish like a mirage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What has become of all that vain mirage? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again and again the telescope had beguiled its untrained users with mirages and deceptions. The orca has a behaviour pattern that lends itself to excellent merman mirages. There can be mirages, dreams, and hallucinations in which we may think water is present when it is not. When this inversion is low (and strong) enough, it causes mirages of the hafgerdingar type. Such mirages, quite common in the polar regions, can produce an appearance fully consistent with the original description, as illustrated by several photographs and a computer simulation. Even without the distortion of mirages, men on board searching ships were often deceived by objects that sprang into view through their telescopes and inflamed their imaginations. The answer is that this miracle is largely a mirage. A simpler and more consistent theory is developed here: that the hafgerdingar are an optical phenomenon, specifically, a superior mirage. A mirage of this type is seen when a strong, well-defined temperature inversion surrounds the observer. The tantalizing mirage of the bourgeois home and the values it stands for thus forms the basis for the plot of the play. Even the peril to seafarers has been corroborated, in the sense that such a mirage is frequently followed by a storm. A temporary comfort, a mirage in his hour of need, it too eventually breaks down into incoherent speech. The effect in question is the superior mirage. The hafgerdingar have already been identified as a mirage in a previous paper. 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