If an ideal seems utterly distant and hopeless, maybe the problem isn't that it's too idealistic, but in a strange, but important, way actually not idealistic enough.

如果某物的‘形’看起来遥不可及，可不是在它太过理想化了，而在奇怪而重要的意义上来说，恰恰反，在它还不够真正的理想。

We do other productions, like a show called Finally A Show About Women that isn't just a thinly veiled aspirational nightmare.

我们还制作其他节目，比如一档名《有档关女性的节目了》，它并非只是一个掩饰得不够好的理想化噩梦。

So they're stuck at this interlanguage or this less than optimal level in the language and they don't get better.

所以他们被困在这种中介语或语言水平不够理想的状态中，无法进一步提升。