It was miles off, visible only through binoculars: leggy in an ice mirage, loping, sloth-like, mythically remote.(北極熊在一英里以外，只有用望遠鏡才能看到，它在冰霧中懶散地行走，像神話那樣遙遠。)

We cannot live without eating, cars do not run without fuel, and perpetual-motion machines are just a mirage.(不進食，我們就不能存活，沒有燃料，汽車就不能發動，(也正是因為這個原因)永動機僅僅是一個現實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.(再舉一個例子，古代，在海面出現“海市蜃樓”，比如海面上出現一座山，人們會怎么想？)

In short, winter is a tomb, spring is a lie, and summer is a pernicious mirage.(總而言之，冬天是墳墓，春天是謊言，夏天則是險惡的海市蜃樓。)

Because light traveling down from a summit passes through many such layers, a surveyor could sight a mirage rather than the peak itself.(因為從山頂向下傳播的光會穿過許多這樣的層，所以測量員看到的可能是海市蜃樓而不是山峰本身。)

Some academics would go further, calling the appearance of many food deserts nothing but a mirage-and not the real problem.(一些學者做出了進一步說明，他們認為很多食品沙漠地區更像是披上了海市蜃樓的外衣，即食品沙漠并不是真正的問題。)

Just over two hours before the main assault began, French Rafale (pictured) and Mirage 2000 fighters went into action over Benghazi.(就在主攻開始前二個小時，法國“陣風”(上圖)和“幻影2000”戰機已在班加西上空活動。)

Soon my father appeared as elusive as a distant mirage.(很快，父親的身影變成了一個遙不可及的幻影。)

In particular, astronomers are anxious to see the extra data that the HARPS group used to conclude Gliese 581g is a mirage.(天文學家們尤其希望能看到琴光譜儀組斷定葛利斯582不存在的那些數據。)

A problem-free life is an illsion - a mirage in the desert.(沒有難題困擾的人生是一個幻想，是沙漠中的海市蜃樓。)

It was a mirage he had seen in that river village, a trick of the heat and light.