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。)
We cannot live without eating, cars do not run without fuel, and perpetual-motion machines are just a mirage.(不进食,我们就不能存活,没有燃料,汽车就不能发动,(也正是因为这个原因)永动机仅仅是一个现实中不存在的幻影而已。)
Let me give another example, in the ancient times, how would people react to the mirage such as a hill on top of the sea.(再举一个例子,古代,在海面出现“海市蜃楼”,比如海面上出现一座山,人们会怎么想?)
In short, winter is a tomb, spring is a lie, and summer is a pernicious mirage.(总而言之,冬天是坟墓,春天是谎言,夏天则是险恶的海市蜃楼。)
Because light traveling down from a summit passes through many such layers, a surveyor could sight a mirage rather than the peak itself.(因为从山顶向下传播的光会穿过许多这样的层,所以测量员看到的可能是海市蜃楼而不是山峰本身。)
Some academics would go further, calling the appearance of many food deserts nothing but a mirage-and not the real problem.(一些学者做出了进一步说明,他们认为很多食品沙漠地区更像是披上了海市蜃楼的外衣,即食品沙漠并不是真正的问题。)
Just over two hours before the main assault began, French Rafale (pictured) and Mirage 2000 fighters went into action over Benghazi.(就在主攻开始前二个小时,法国“阵风”(上图)和“幻影2000”战机已在班加西上空活动。)
Soon my father appeared as elusive as a distant mirage.(很快,父亲的身影变成了一个遥不可及的幻影。)
In particular, astronomers are anxious to see the extra data that the HARPS group used to conclude Gliese 581g is a mirage.(天文学家们尤其希望能看到琴光谱仪组断定葛利斯582不存在的那些数据。)
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。)