And so even though the multinationals aren't being massively impacted, it's not completely insubstantial.

所以尽管跨国公司没有受到重大影响，但这件事并非完全不重要。

Informal essays are, by and large, silly and insubstantial things; unless you get a job as a columnist at your local newspaper, writing such fluffery is a skill you'll never use in the actual mall-and-filling-station world.

所谓非正式的随笔大半写的都是些滑稽琐事；除非你在当地小报上开专，则写这等琐屑零碎的本事在这个布满商场加油站的现实世界中根本派不上用场。

If they seem occasionally insubstantial, it is because their substance is of a different quality.

如果它们偶尔看起来不实在，这是因为它们的内容属于一种不同的品质。

The billowing banks of fog thus created might look insubstantial, but there is water here to be captured-and in this, the driest place on Earth, capture it people do.

由此产生的滚滚大雾可能看起来并不真实，但这里有水可以收集——在这里，在这个地球上最燥的地方，人们是这样做的。

All those colorful smudges and loose brush work seemed insubstantial and ephemeral when you compared them to the rigorous forms of the cubists and futurists.

所有那些色彩斑斓的污迹和松散的笔触，与立体派和未来派严谨的形式相比，似乎都是空洞而短暂的。

He was oddly colourless, with transparent eyelashes, wispy hair and an insubstantial air, as though a single gust of wind might blow him away.

他苍白得出奇，睫毛透明，头发纤细，有一种不真实感，好像一阵风就会把他吹走。

Her present life, her work, the friends she had, seemed insubstantial compared with all that had happened before.

她当前的生活、她的工作、她的朋友，跟以往发生的那些事相比， 似乎都不重要。

If that seems surprisingly insubstantial, bear in mind that at the microscopic level things behave differently.

如果你觉得这些东西似乎很不坚实，请记住：在显微镜下，事物的表现形式是不同的。

So these are not insubstantial holdings, which, of course, tot it up would make the King one of the wealthiest people in the world.

当然，这些财产并不是微不足道的，它们加起来会让国王成为世界上最富有的人之一。

It is very compelling but insubstantial evidence.

这是非常有说服力但非实质性的证据。

Her body seemed to wither and become more insubstantial each day.

她的身体似乎一天比一天枯萎，变得更加虚弱。

The approaching territory looked vague, insubstantial, as if glinced in peripheral vision.

前方的领地显得模糊不清，虚无缥缈，仿佛只是眼角余光中的一瞥。

It's 20% to 25% of the market, so not insubstantial.

这一比例占市场的20%至25%，因此并非微不足道。

Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade.

Zeena 本人， 从一个压抑的现实中， 已经消失在一个虚幻的阴影中。

It went even deeper because it then became as if all that I was seeing was sort of insubstantial, and there was just a kind of sizeless emptiness, and that's what I really was, and it seemed to include everything.

这种体验更加深入， 仿佛我所看到的一切都变得虚无缥缈，只剩下一种无边无际的空虚，而那正是我的本质所在， 它似乎包容了一切。

If ever she looked ahead she felt instinctively that the gulf between them was too deep, and that the bridge their passion had flung across it was as insubstantial as a rainbow.

如果她向前看， 她会本能地感到他们之间的鸿沟太深，他们的激情跨越它的桥梁像彩虹一样虚无缥缈。

An imagination of this vigorous cast can give existence to insubstantial forms, and stability to the shadowy reveries which the mind naturally falls into when realities are found vapid.

这种充满活力的想象力可以使虚无缥缈的形式存在，并使人们在发现现实乏味时头脑自然陷入的阴暗幻想稳定下来。

And so the actual impact it has on your calories and achieving that deficit throughout the day isn't insubstantial, but there are other things that you can do.

而且它实际上对你卡路里的摄入以及整天达到赤字的影响并不小，但你可以做其他一些事情。

So he's embezzling around 100 pounds a year, which is not an insubstantial amount of money, straight into his own pocket.

所以他每年贪污大约100英镑，这可不是一笔小数目，直接进了他自己的口袋。

And in the Institute, his skills actually come to the fore more than usual, because the story itself is fairly insubstantial.

而在研究院中， 他的技能实际上比平时更加突出，因为故事本身相当单薄。