illusion
noun /ɪˈluːʒn/
/ɪˈluːʒn/
- [countable, uncountable] a false idea or belief, especially about somebody or about a situation
错误的观念；幻想 - under the illusion that… She's under the illusion that (= believes wrongly that) she'll get the job.
她存有幻想，认为会得到那份工作。 - illusion about something The new president has no illusions about the difficulties facing her country (= she knows that the country has serious problems).
新任总统清楚地知道她的国家面临的困难。 - I have no illusions about her feelings for me (= I know the truth is that she does not love me).
我并不幻想她会喜欢我。 - He could no longer distinguish between illusion and reality.
他再也分不清幻想与现实之间的区别了。 - I don’t want to have my illusions shattered!
我不想让我的幻想破灭！
- I don't want to give him any false illusions.
我不想给他任何错觉。 - I never had any grand illusions of winning.
我从未奢望过能赢。 - I think I have lost all the illusions I had left.
我觉得我原先留存的所有幻想都已经破灭了。 - Now is the time to shed our illusions.
现在是抛弃我们幻想的时候了。 - To believe you have nothing more to learn is a dangerous illusion.
以为自己再没什么可学的想法是一种危险的错觉。 - Meeting my hero in real life really shattered all my illusions about him.
在现实生活中遇到我的英雄真的粉碎了我对他的所有幻想。 - To believe that you're safe is a dangerous illusion.
相信自己安全是一种危险的幻觉。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dangerous
- optical
- visual
- …
- be under
- entertain
- have
- …
- illusion about
- illusion as to
- be all an illusion
- under the illusion that… She's under the illusion that (= believes wrongly that) she'll get the job.
- [countable] something that seems to exist but in fact does not, or seems to be something that it is not
幻想的事物；错觉 - Mirrors in a room often give an illusion of space.
房间里的镜子常给人一种空间增大的错觉。 - The idea of absolute personal freedom is an illusion.
绝对个人自由的观念是一种幻想。
- It turned out that their happy marriage was all an illusion.
结果发现他们的幸福婚姻完全是个错觉。 - The figure was only a trick of light, a mere illusion.
那个影像只不过是灯光造成的幻影，纯粹是错觉。 - The road ahead looks wet, but in fact this is an optical illusion.
前方路面看上去是湿的，但实际上是一种视觉幻象。 - The slogan provides the comforting illusion that something is being done.
这标语给人错觉，让人以为正在采取某种措施而感到欣慰。 - They are trying to maintain the illusion that the company is in good shape.
他们在努力维持公司运转良好的假象。 - They wanted to create the illusion of being a close, happy family.
他们想制造一种假象，仿佛他们是亲密、幸福的一家人。 - The huge size of the vehicle gives the illusion of safety.
庞大的车身给人以安全的错觉。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dangerous
- optical
- visual
- …
- be under
- entertain
- have
- …
- illusion about
- illusion as to
- be all an illusion
- Mirrors in a room often give an illusion of space.
词源Middle English (in the sense ‘deceiving, deception’): via Old French from Latin illusio(n-), from illudere ‘to mock’, from in- ‘against’ + ludere ‘play’.