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单词 optical illusion
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Examples from literature
  • For example, some scientists believe that a zebra’s stripes are not for camouflage but to make an optical illusion.

Examplesofoptical illusion

optical illusion
The ostensible exile of beliefs about the supernatural out of written into oral culture increasingly looks like anopticalillusionfor the same reason.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is, after all, anopticalillusion, like the young girl-old woman picture.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In many ways it is, however, a socialopticalillusion.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It appears that the imperialist enterprise in recent centuries has been predicated on racial divisions: an 'opticalillusion' that uses the metaphor of colour as a code.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I am advised that the diagram printed with both articles is very little more than anopticalillusionand that it has no scientific basis.
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This is in fact anopticalillusionbecause it will not be the largest authority.
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I would venture to say that anyone who cannot see through thisopticalillusionneeds more than his eyes examined.
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To say that this process incurs an extra cost for pension funds is anopticalillusion.
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If we consider them as public expenditure cuts, we find that they are very largely anopticalillusion.
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We ask for the so-calledopticalillusionof the level playing field.
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That is theopticalillusionwhich will not survive its exposure during the debate tonight.
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Or was it anopticalillusion?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
However, that is anopticalillusion.
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Hansard archive
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This motion may be anopticalillusioncaused by the relativistic velocity of the jet, and not true superluminal motion.
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This is anopticalillusiondue to the properties of special relativity.
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