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

如果你觉得这些西乎很不坚实，请记住：在显微镜下，事物的表现形式是不同的。

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， 乎都不重要。

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.

她的身体乎一天比一天枯萎，变得更加虚弱。

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中。

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

因此， 尽管跨国公司没有受到巨大响，但响也不是完全不大的。

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，它们加起会让国王成为世界上最富有的人之一。

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。

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，与立体和严谨的形式相比，乎都是空洞而短暂的。

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并不真实，但这里有水可以收集——在这里，在这个地球上最干燥的地方，人们是这样做的。

This was the thing that was important, the cycle of life, with birth and death merging one into the other in an imperceptible twilight and an insubstantial dawn.

这是最重要的事情， 生命的循环， 生与死在难以察觉的黄昏和虚幻的黎明中相互融合。

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。

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。

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栏，否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不上用场。