hallucinate
hallucinate — 動詞
- hallucinatepresent simple I / you / we / they
- hallucinateshe / she / it
- hallucinatedpast simple
- hallucinating-ing form
1. to experience something that feels completely real — such as seeing a person, he
產生幻覺
因疾病或藥物影響，感受到不存在的事物
to experience something that feels completely real — such as seeing a person, hearing a voice, or feeling a touch — when nothing is actually there to cause that experience, often because of illness, injury, or the effects of medication or drugs.
After the crash, Amani began to hallucinate and saw bright lights that were not real.
車禍之後，Amani 開始產生幻覺，看到一些其實不存在的亮光。
hallucinate + see + [object that does not exist]
The doctor warned that a fever this high might cause Xiu to start hallucinating.
醫生警告說，這麼高的發燒可能會讓 Xiu 開始產生幻覺。
hallucinate as result of fever / illness
Erik hallucinated that spiders were crawling across the ceiling of his hospital room.
Erik 產生幻覺，覺得有蜘蛛在病房天花板上爬行。
Some patients hallucinate when they stop taking their regular medication too quickly.
有些病人如果太快停用平常服用的藥物，就會產生幻覺。
- see things
informal expression, less clinical
- have visions
can suggest a spiritual or prophetic experience rather than a medical one
- be delirious
specifically caused by fever or illness, not drugs
- perceive clearly
describes accurate sensory perception
文法句型
hallucinate + that-clause
hallucinate (no object)
用法筆記
Frequently used in medical and psychiatric contexts. The verb is typically intransitive; the thing perceived is described in a separate clause or phrase, not as a direct object.
常見錯誤
2. Used of an artificial intelligence system: to generate information that sounds c
虛構資訊
AI 系統憑空產生不實的內容
Used of an artificial intelligence system: to generate information that sounds confident but is factually wrong or completely invented — for example, a chatbot creating a book title that has never existed or a virtual assistant describing a person who is not real.
The AI chatbot hallucinated a fake citation for a research paper that was never written.
這個 AI 聊天機器人虛構了一則根本不存在的論文引用資料。
AI + hallucinate + [false citation]
When Reuben asked the language model about historical dates, it hallucinated several incorrect answers.
當 Reuben 問這個語言模型有關歷史日期時，它虛構了好幾個錯誤的答案。
The company warned users that the virtual assistant may hallucinate and give inaccurate information.
該公司警告使用者，虛擬助理可能產生幻覺，給出錯誤的資訊。
Developers are trying to reduce how often large language models hallucinate facts in their responses.
開發人員正設法減少大型語言模型在回答中虛構事實的情況。
- generate accurate information
describes correct AI output
文法句型
hallucinate (no object)
AI / chatbot / language model + hallucinate
用法筆記
This is a relatively new metaphorical use borrowed from the medical meaning. It is most common in discussions of generative AI, especially large language models and chatbots. The AI is described as 'hallucinating' because it reports false information as confidently as if it were true, rather than because it experiences anything subjectively.