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 mirror ['mɪrɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 镜子, 写真, 典范

vt. 反映, 映出

[化] 镜; 反射镜

[医] 返光镜, 镜




    mirror
    [ noun ]
    1. polished surface that forms images by reflecting light

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. a faithful depiction or reflection

    4. <noun.cognition>
      the best mirror is an old friend
    [ verb ]
    1. reflect as if in a mirror

    2. <verb.weather>
      The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above
    3. reflect or resemble

    4. <verb.communication>
      The plane crash in Milan mirrored the attack in the World Trade Center


    Mirror \Mir"ror\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mirrored}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Mirroring}.]
    1. To reflect, as in a mirror.

    2. To copy or duplicate; to mimic or imitate; as, the files
    at Project Gutenberg were mirrored on several other ftp
    sites around the world.
    [PJC]

    3. To have a close resemblance to; as, his opinions often
    mirrored those of his wife.
    [PJC]


    Mirror \Mir"ror\, n. [OE. mirour, F. miroir, OF. also mireor,
    fr. (assumed) LL. miratorium, fr. mirare to look at, L.
    mirari to wonder. See {Marvel}, and cf. {Miracle},
    {Mirador}.]
    1. A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished
    substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of
    light.

    And in her hand she held a mirror bright,
    Wherein her face she often view[`e]d fair.
    --Spenser.

    2. That which gives a true representation, or in which a true
    image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.

    She is mirour of all courtesy. --Chaucer.

    O goddess, heavenly bright,
    Mirror of grace and majesty divine. --Spenser.

    3. (Zo["o]l.) See {Speculum}.

    {Mirror carp} (Zo["o]l.), a domesticated variety of the carp,
    having only three or fur rows of very large scales side.


    {Mirror plate}.
    (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame.
    (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors.

    {Mirror writing}, a manner or form of backward writing,
    making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters
    the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror. The
    substitution of this manner of writing for the common
    manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.

    1. Guenther Dahloff, an economic official of the West German Embassy, rose to say Mr. McPherson's concerns were just "a mirror image" of European concerns about U.S. trade policy, especially the huge new trade bill passed Wednesday.
    2. The very bulk and tone of the 690-page report mirror the complexity and bitterness of the controversy the committees began investigating 10 months ago.
    3. A 2-foot metal rod accidentally put in upside-down caused the flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror, NASA investigators said Thursday.
    4. A message scrawled on the bathroom mirror in lipstick said, "I took what you loved most." Police suspected Ms. Burns shot her sons and planned to ask her to submit to hypnosis after she passed lie detector and voice stress tests.
    5. The average of 30 blue chip stocks does not necessarily mirror what is happening to the hundreds of other substantial companies.
    6. "If the null corrector is correct, the mirror would be correct," said Daniel Schroeder, a NASA telescope scientist who helped oversee the Hubble project and is chairman of the physics and astronomy department at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
    7. The action was designed to mirror Aug. 23 demonstrations in the three Baltic republics in which more than 1 million Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians joined hands to protest the annexation of their lands.
    8. Instead he holds up a mirror to the world of letters, one that is truthful and compassionate, in just the same way that his fiction has always reflected the hopes, aspirations and disappointments of his other world, that of middle America.
    9. After months of stolen hours at the library, lunch breaks spent cramming on legalese,and late-night rehearsals in front of a mirror, Darish represented himself in a case concerning several hundred dollars in unpaid bills at his family's garage.
    10. "Our staffs must reflect the diversity of our society and our newspapers must faithfully mirror the world around us because we are a unique business with extraordinary responsibilities," Wilson said.
    11. As such, it calls itself the first gold index fund, and Benham officials expect it to mirror the trends of the North American gold industry as a whole.
    12. The Democrats accused their opponents of retreading the 1980 and 1984 platforms, "talking about the future through a rear-view mirror." Rhetoric aside, both platforms duck difficult issues.
    13. But your portrait is a reflection of this in a funhouse mirror. In the case of the Safeway corporate staff, that staff had to be cut to match the smaller size of the company.
    14. Wollensak said the Perkin-Elmer design did not allow for the primary mirror to be tested after it was placed into the assembled telescope.
    15. NASA has not launched a shuttle since Discovery's April flight with the Hubble Space Telescope, which later was found to have a defective mirror.
    16. Two days after NASA revealed that the Hubble was crippled by a defective mirror, the House approved $14.3 billion for the agency in fiscal 1991, $2 billion more than the current fiscal year. There's little talk of any immediate cutbacks.
    17. ACQUISITION through "mirror" subsidiaries remains a doubtful technique.
    18. When it all gets to be too much for Mr. Smith, he sometimes stands before a bathroom mirror in his seedy room.
    19. GEC is more than simply a private company; it is the industrial mirror of many of the strengths and weaknesses of British society.
    20. Interestingly, the picture Mr. Gay presents of Freud is virtually the mirror image of the picture Roy Porter presents in his recent "A Social History of Madness."
    21. Yabaya's possessions included gold needles, a bronze mirror with its enamel handle encrusted with precious stones, and tiny tongs for applying kohl, a dark eye makeup, the paper said.
    22. Mr. Sumita noted that Japan's present quota is only the fifth-largest among the IMF members and doesn't mirror his country's economic performance.
    23. The mistake makes it impossible to focus light from all parts of the mirror onto one point.
    24. Discovery's payload bay was sealed late Saturday night, drastically reducing the risk of contamination to the telescope's finely polished 94.5-inch mirror.
    25. Because these declines partly reflect the effects of debt conversion schemes, the BIS figures have ceased to be an accurate mirror of the flow of funds in and out of the heavily indebted region.
    26. A school bus whose driver momentarily took his eyes off the road to look through the rear-view mirror plowed into two trees, injuring the driver and all but two of the 38 children aboard, authorities said today.
    27. A congressional staffer involved in drafting the sanctions says they are likely to mirror those Mr. Bush enacted shortly after the massacre.
    28. Discovery will trail the Hubble from 46 miles away for nearly two days until the telescope's eight-foot mirror is exposed to space.
    29. Here, four panels form a cross around a center mirror. The lilies are shown in dramatic shadows, a dusting of light illuminating their inner and almost religious beauty.
    30. "I wasn't starting out to make a statement, that isn't the way I work," Mapplethorpe once said. "The statement grows out of what I do." In his 1976-77 work "Bill," Mapplethorpe placed a mirror between two panels of a man masturbating.
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