His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion. 他的论据听起来似乎有理,但根本上是欺骗性的。
Your hope of promotion is a mere delusion. 你提升的希望只不过是一种幻觉。
He labours under the delusion that he's a fine actor. 他有个错觉, 以为自己是个好演员.
delusion
[ noun ]
(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary
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a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
<noun.cognition> he has delusions of competence his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination
the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
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Delusion \De*lu"sion\n. [L. delusio, fr. deludere. See {Delude}.] 1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. --Pope.
2. The state of being deluded or misled.
3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. --Prior.
Syn: {Delusion}, {Illusion}.
Usage: These words both imply some deception practiced upon the mind. Delusion is deception from want of knowledge; illusion is deception from morbid imagination. An illusion is a false show, a mere cheat on the fancy or senses. It is, in other words, some idea or image presented to the bodily or mental vision which does not exist in reality. A delusion is a false judgment, usually affecting the real concerns of life. Or, in other words, it is an erroneous view of something which exists indeed, but has by no means the qualities or attributes ascribed to it. Thus we speak of the illusions of fancy, the illusions of hope, illusive prospects, illusive appearances, etc. In like manner, we speak of the delusions of stockjobbing, the delusions of honorable men, delusive appearances in trade, of being deluded by a seeming excellence. ``A fanatic, either religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions; while the term illusion is applied solely to the visions of an uncontrolled imagination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity, or lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word delusion is never applied.'' --Whately.
This was always a false one-dimensional picture and during the 1980s it became a sad delusion.
Above all it must eschew the comfortable politics of delusion which have kept it out of office for 15 years. Mr Blair is determined that the Labour party must change.
To me, it's about love and delusion and reality.
Ordinarily that delusion should have endeared him to progressives, who hold to pretty much the same idea.
That is a delusion, and a dangerous one too.' Underlying inflation, which excludes mortgage payments, was 2.8 per cent in January, still in the top half of the government's 1 per cent to 4 per cent target range.
Thought for today: "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." _ Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (1828-1910).
But it takes an enormous feat of self delusion to sustain the notion of Baldwin as black hero through 400-odd pages. He was born in Harlem in 1924 and became one of Harlem's many precocious boy preachers, able to move crowds with his righteous fervour.
Celebrity is a public delusion for which the world will make you pay.
Some skeptics dismiss the whole idea as a dangerous fantasy, the kind of delusion that prompts companies to build new factories just before orders suddenly dry up or speculators to buy stocks at a market top.
Sen. Danforth, the Missouri Republican who has shepherded Judge Thomas through the confirmation process, said the delusion theory was "a kinder and gentler explanation" of Prof.