It hovered before his eyes like the mirage of an oasis.
它在他眼前晃动,好像海市蜃楼里的绿洲。
When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.
在炎热的夏天开车时,你可能会在路上看到闪闪发光的水,但科学告诉我们,这其实只是海市蜃楼,是空气加热造成的幻觉。
I am fortunate to have many clients with a similar view, but MGM Mirage set an incredibly high expectation for all the design teams on this project and they made a commitment which was inspiring.
我很幸运的一点是我的许多客户与我有同样的看法。米高梅公司对这次的项目寄予很大希望,为此他们也给出了十分令人鼓舞的承诺。
When I arrive, the sun has just begun to dip below the horizon, so I drop my bags at my cabin and race toward an apparent mirage of red and orange peaks, aglow in the late afternoon light.
当我到达的时候,太阳刚刚开始沉入地平线以下,所以我把旅行袋扔在座舱里,然后跑向在傍晚的余晖里清楚可见的红橙色相间的沙峰的蜃景。
It's like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.
实验就象海市蜃楼,在高温下,光线发生弯曲,从而前面的道路就看不见了,而只能看到后面的天空图像。
It was miles off, visible only through binoculars: leggy in an ice mirage, loping, sloth-like, mythically remote.
北极熊在一英里以外,只有用望远镜才能看到,它在冰雾中懒散地行走,像神话那样遥远。
A problem-free life is an illsion - a mirage in the desert.
没有难题困扰的人生是一个幻想,是沙漠中的海市蜃楼。
Almost all people think a mirage is an illusion, but I disagree.
几乎所有的人都认为海市蜃楼是一个虚像,但我却持不同意见。
Researchers from the University of Dallas in Texas have hijacked one of nature's most intriguing phenomena - the mirage - to make an invisibility cloak.
来自得克萨斯州达拉斯大学的研究学者利用了自然界最有趣的现象之一的海市蜃楼,来制造隐身斗篷。
At work, running on the spot (figuratively). A mirage of coffee is before me. Can I justify an espresso on the way to the bank?
工作进行中,在现场运转着(象征性的)。我面前是一杯幻影中的咖啡。我能为出现在去银行路上的一杯浓缩咖啡作出解释吗?
Maybe we can fault freak atmospheric conditions that caused a mirage or an even rarer astronomical event that sent icebergs into shipping lanes.
也许我们可以归罪于反常的大气状况导致出现了海市蜃楼,或是更加稀奇的天文现象使得冰山进入了航线。
A mirage is an optical Illusionfounded on waves of heat.
海市蜃楼是由大气热浪潮产生的一种光学幻觉。
Rhetorical mirage, typically appeared in advertisements, is an illusion created by language.
修辞幻象是语言制造的幻觉,广告是其典型形式之一。
It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilized world lies like a quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile.
整个发臭的文明世界像一块沼泽地一样处于这个深渊底部,这种犹犹豫豫的微笑像一座海市蜃楼一样在上面飘忽不定地摇曳。
A mirage is an optical illusion.
海市蜃楼是一种视错觉。
And if you see an oasis in the distance yet you feel sure it is only a mirage, should you deliberately ignore it?
如果你看到某处有一片沙漠而你又确信那只是蜃景,那么你应该故意忽视它吗?
A common desert phenomenon is the mirage, an optical illusion caused when lights waves are bent or refracted by layers of air that are different in density.
海市蜃楼是沙漠里一种常见现象。它是光波在遇到不同密度的空气层而发生折射时引起的一种光幻象。
Tight embrace, is an oasis of relics of a mirage.
紧抱住的绿洲,是残破的海市蜃楼。
The oasis they point to may be just an illusion or a mirage.
他们所说的绿洲很可能只是一种幻景。
Suspended overhead of pedestrians, large scale mirror-like surfaces create an illusory appearance, which bends light rays to produce a displaced image much like a mirage.
吊在头顶的步行街,大尺寸玻璃幕表皮通过扭曲光线来呈现像幻境一样的替换图像,创造了一个虚幻的外观。
Suspended overhead of pedestrians, large scale mirror-like surfaces create an illusory appearance, which bends light rays to produce a displaced image much like a mirage.
吊在头顶的步行街,大尺寸玻璃幕表皮通过扭曲光线来呈现像幻境一样的替换图像,创造了一个虚幻的外观。
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