關鍵字彙：
askance/ blur/ daze/ dazzle/ dilate/ dim/ discern/ eyesore/ gloat/ glower/ illusion/ mirage/ monitor/ opaque/ optical/ peek/ peep/ peer/ squint/ twinkle
1. 「視覺的」叫optical：
•Near-sightedness is an optical defect.
2. 「偷看」可用peep或peek（非正式），另有極為類似的peer，它是「凝視」、 「盯著看」的意思：
•It's rude to peep (at other people's work).
•The child promised not to peek while counting in the game of hide-and-seek.
•He peered through the mist, trying to find the right path.
•She peered at me over the top of her glasses.
3. 「監看」、「監控」可用monitor，「得意地看」或「顯露得意的眼神」叫gloat，眼睛「閃閃發亮」叫twinkle：
•In an honor system, there is no one to monitor the exam.
•The miser gloated over his gold with total satisfaction.
•He gloated at the thought that his enemy had been trapped.
•Her eyes twinkled when she knew she had passed the exam.
4. 「怒目而視」、「凶狠地瞪著」用glower，「不悅或懷疑地看著」用片語look askance at：
•Instead of answering, he just glowered (at me).
•He took a glowering look at his son's report card.
•She looked askance at the dirty man/ looked at the dirty man askance.
•The cashier looked askance at the forged signature.
5. 眼睛「張大」、瞳孔「放大」用dilate，因強光或為瞄準目標而「瞇眼看」用squint：
•Her eyes dilated with terror.
•The cat dilated its eyes.
•In the dark, the pupils of your eyes dilate.
•She squinted through the keyhole.
6. 「很費力才看清或了解」用discern，「使看不清楚」、「使視線變模糊」用blur或dim，「不透明的」叫opaque：
•He was just able to discern the road in the dark.
•I soon discerned that the man was lying.
•It was difficult to discern which of them was to blame.
•Tears blurred my eyes.
•The windows were blurred with rain.
•The smoke dimmed his eyes.
•The opaque window will prevent people from watching you.
7. 「使目眩」可用daze或dazzle：
•The bright sunlight dazed him.
•The lights of the car dazzled me on the dark road.
8. 因為某些情境和背景因素而「看錯東西」－也就是「幻覺」－叫illusion，「海市蜃樓」、「空中樓閣」叫mirage，「難看或礙眼的東西」叫eyesore：
•It is easy to create an optical illusion in which lines of equal length appear different.
•The lost prospector was fooled by a mirage in the desert.
•The old abandoned house was a neighborhood eyesore.
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