mirror
mirror 英 [ˈmɪrə(r)] 美 [ˈmɪrɚ]
n. 镜子； vt. 反射；反映
进行时:mirroring 过去式:mirrored 过去分词:mirrored 第三人称单数:mirrors 名词复数:mirrors
- A mirror is a glass surface backed with a metallic coating that reflects images that are in front of it. When you gaze at yourself in a mirror, your own face gazes right back at you.
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- n. 镜子；
- vt. 反射；反映
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1. He looked at himself in the mirror.
他照了照镜子。
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2. a wing mirror (= on the side of a car)
装在车外侧面的后视镜
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3. a side-view mirror
侧视镜
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4. The face is the mirror of the soul.
脸是反映灵魂的镜子。
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5. She saw herself mirrored in the window.
她看到自己在窗玻璃上照出的影像。
- mirror (n.) early 13c., from Old French mireoir "a reflecting glass, looking glass; observation, model, example," earlier miradoir (11c.), from mirer "look at" (oneself in a mirror), "observe, watch, contemplate," from Vulgar Latin *mirare "to look at," variant of Latin mirari "to wonder at, admire" (see miracle).
- mirror (v.) "to reflect," 1590s, from mirror (n.). Related: Mirrored; mirroring. The Middle English verb mirouren (early 15c.) meant "to be a model" (for conduct, behavior, etc.), while miren (mid-14c., from Old French mirer) meant "to look in a mirror."
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