造成假象 meaning in English

create a false impression

Correlations can be spurious and do not imply causality
相关性可能造成假象，但未必表示因果关系。
It might be an illusion that the recent low tides were actually higher than previous ones that resulted in smaller portion of the inter - tidal zones being exposed
近期的低潮可能较以往的高，令潮间区露出的部分较少，造成假象。
The object in hand being to show that the prisoner went down , with some fellow - plotter untracked , in the dover mail on that friday night in november five years ago , and got out of the mail in the night , as a blind , at a place where he did not remain , but from which he travelled back some dozen miles or more , to a garrison and dockyard , and there collected information ; a witness was called to identify him as having been at the precise time required , in the coffee - room of an hotel in that garrison - and - dockyard town , waiting for another person
此案的目的是要证明五年前那个十一月的星期五囚犯跟某个尚待追查的同案犯一起乘邮车南下，两人晚间一同下了车，到了某处，但未停留目的是造成假象，却又立即折返十多英里，来到某个要塞和造船厂搜集情报。一个证人出庭确认四犯曾在那个时刻在那个要塞和造船厂所在的城市某旅店的咖啡馆里等待另一个人。