illusion
/ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/ 名词 C1中文： 幻想、幻觉
- A distortion of sensory perception where real stimuli lead to a false or misleading impression of reality. · We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.· Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.
- A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true. · Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.
- A magician’s trick.
- The state of being deceived or misled.
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It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.
Finally ten months and a half had gone by and no favorable change had taken place, and Dantès began to fancy the inspector’s visit but a dream, an illusion of the brain.
Now this solitude was peopled with his thoughts, the night lighted up by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.
The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.
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