详细解释
蜃
1、(形声。从虫,辰声。本义:大蛤)。
2、同本义。
蜃,雉入海化为蜃。---《说文》
蜃,大蛤也。---《周礼·掌蜃》注
小曰蛤,大曰蜃。皆介物,蚌类也。---《国语·晋语》注
旦瓯文蜃。---《周书·王会》
激女之山多蜃珧。---《东山经》
春献鳖蜃。---《周礼·天官·鳖人》
蜃蛤：大蛤和蛤蜊
蜃窗：大蛤壳磨薄后镶嵌以透明的窗子
蜃珧：蚌蛤之属
蜃贝：贝壳的一种,可作饰物
蜃醢：以蚌蛤类肉制成的酱。
3、古祭器。画有蜃形的漆尊。
凡山川四方,用蜃。---《周礼·春官·鬯人》
蜃器：以蜃贝为饰的祭器。
4、指蜃灰。用蜃壳烧成的灰。
白蜃。---《考工记·匠人》。注:“灰也。”
蜃壁：以蜃灰涂抹的墙壁,取其洁白而去湿
蜃灶：煮盐的灶
蜃墙：有蜃灰粉制过的墙壁。
5、传说中的蛟属。能吐气成海市蜃楼。亦指海市蜃楼。
鹭涛清彻,蜃阁化城重。---杨巨源《供奉定法师归安南》
蜃楼：古人称蜃气变幻成的楼阁
蜃气：海面风平浪静时出现在远方的幻像,实由光折射而成。古人误以为是蜃所吐之气
蜃阁：虚幼的空中楼阁景象
蜃市：海市
蜃女：神话中的龙女。
例句
它在他眼前晃动，好像海市蜃楼里的绿洲。
It hovered before his eyes like the mirage of an oasis.
我们都有过感觉出错的经历——是幻觉，亦或是海市蜃楼。
We have all had experiences where our senses have been wrong—illusions, perhaps, mirages.
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。
Because light traveling down from a summit passes through many such layers, a surveyor could sight a mirage rather than the peak itself.
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。
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.
尼泊尔是一个小国，从12,000英尺高度上向东飞行的飞机的舷窗望出去，可以清楚地看到左侧窗外30英里外高耸的喜马拉雅山脉明亮的白色海市蜃楼。
Nepal is a small country, and from the windows of our plane floating eastward at 12,000 feet, one can see clearly the brilliant white mirage of the high Himalayas thirty miles off the left window.
好像海市蜃楼似地，但又非常真实。
It is like a mirage and yet quite real.
这不是海市蜃楼，她就在你的身边。
It is not a mirage, it is beside you.
他认为这种繁荣的海市蜃楼。
He thinks the boom is a mirage.
那是海市蜃楼，不是真的。
That is mirage, not true.
海市蜃楼从何处而来？
Where do mirages come from?
海市蜃楼及其伴随的快速复苏希望，已经破灭了。
The mirage, and with it hopes of a speedy recovery, has vanished.
用一根火柴烧一座蜃楼、借这场大雨让自己逃走。
With a match burn a mirage, through the rain let yourself away.
这波富裕的浪潮纯粹是海市蜃楼还是会奔流不息呢？
Is this wave of affluence a chimera or does it have solid underpinnings?
这是第二种海市蜃楼，发生在地面比空气冷的时候。
This second kind of mirage happens when the ground is colder than the air.
《巨头的诅咒》一书却认为，这些利好只是海市蜃楼。
"The Curse of the Mogul" argues that this upside was a mirage.
没有难题困扰的人生是一个幻想，是沙漠中的海市蜃楼。
A problem-free life is an illsion - a mirage in the desert.
Wright最初希望在《海市蜃楼》完稿后更换课题。
Wright initially hoped to change subjects after finishing The Looming Tower.
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。
In short, winter is a tomb, spring is a lie, and summer is a pernicious mirage.
很有可能的是，在2018年前实现退休金平衡将成为海市蜃楼。
It could well be that equilibrium in the pension fund by 2018 turns out to be something of a mirage.
现在，即使是乐观主义者也担心这种美好的前景可能只是海市蜃楼。
Now even the optimists fear this wonderful prospect may be a mirage.
NBA季后赛的海市蜃楼呈现在他脑海里，这时欢乐的喊声从窗外传进来。
The looming NBA playoffs were on his mind. So were the joyful shouts emanating through his window.
这是美国最奇特也最迷人的城市，它在沙漠之中闪闪发光就像一座海市蜃楼。
It is the strangest and most fantastic city in America, glittering in the middle of the desert like a neon mirage.
那种认为欧元区出口会继续不顾成本，高歌猛进的观点不过是海市蜃楼般的幻觉。
It is a delusion to suppose that euro-area exports can continue to barrel on regardless of their cost.
那种认为欧元区出口会继续不顾成本，高歌猛进的观点不过是海市蜃楼般的幻觉。
It is a delusion to suppose that euro-area exports can continue to barrel on regardless of their cost.