It's kind of a snare and a delusion to outguess macroeconomic cycles.

它像是海市蜃楼，意图战胜济循环。

Utopia, the perfect society, is unattainable, for there is no such thing.

乌托邦这个完美的社会，则是可望不可及的海市蜃楼。

I can conjure them but they are mirages only.

我尽可以把这些人变出来，可他们就像海市蜃楼般的幻景。

Of course, at the moment, these buildings seem less like real residential spaces, and rather more like chimeras.

当然，就目前而言，这些建筑看起来不太像真正的住宅空间，而更像是海市蜃楼。

Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage?

或者我们也许只是在追逐海市蜃楼？

You know to me it's a mirage from the first two weeks.

你知道，从前两周开始，这只是海市蜃楼。

I drove my feet through a desert Whose mirage fluttered like a host.

我车穿过沙漠 那里的海市蜃楼像主人一样飘动。

The tantalizing mirage of victory beckoned me, and I pushed forward with unwavering focus.

诱人的胜利海市蜃楼向我招手，我坚定不移地向前推进。

Under the bright, unrelenting Sicilian sun, the city of Syracuse shimmered like a mirage.

在明亮、无情的西西里阳光下，锡拉丘兹市像海市蜃楼一样闪闪发光。

Hedge-fund executives have already reacted angrily to “The Hedge Fund Mirage”, which suggests that looking into the mirror may be painful.

对冲基金总裁们已对《对冲基金的海市蜃楼》一书表示愤怒，这显示了要面对镜子里的自己是痛苦的。

She knew what she had seen in the mirage— Fremen riding on the back of a giant worm.

她知道自己在海市蜃楼中看到了什么——骑在巨虫背上的人。

He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.

他穿过一片黄色的平原，那里的回声重复着一个人的思想，焦虑带来了预兆性的海市蜃楼。

And today's story getting a 10 out of 10, a mirrored mirage and a camouflaged crib in Joshua Tree National Park.

又到了今天的“最后一分钟”环节，约书亚树国家公园中，有一座镜像屋，如海市蜃楼一般，也如一张隐蔽的婴儿床一般。

Opening scene: A fierce sun set the sands of Giza aglow, radiating a heat mirage against the horizon.

开场：猛烈的太阳照耀着吉萨的沙滩，在地平线上散发出热气腾腾的海市蜃楼。

Chapter 3: The Tempting Mirage As the game progressed, I found myself in a rhythm, each swing resonating with perfection.

第 3 章：诱人的海市蜃楼 随着游戏的进行，我发现自己处于一种节奏中，每一次挥杆都完美地产生共鸣。

He had seen a new life spread before him and at last after all these years rest and the mirage of happiness.

他看到了一种新的生活在他面前展开， 过这么多年的休息和幸福的海市蜃楼， 他终于看到了。

I won other speaking contests and became editor-in-chief of the class of 1900 College Annual, The Mirage, and the university paper, The Palladium.

我赢得了其他演讲比赛，并成为1900届大学年鉴《海市蜃楼》和大学报纸《钯》的主编。

But the war they craved was like a mountain at the other end of the grassland: clearly visible, but as far away as a mirage.

但他们渴望的战争， 就像草原另一端的一座山，清晰可见，却又如海市蜃楼般遥远。

When heat like this is on, it can seem to last for ever—right up until it breaks, and seems only ever to have been a mirage.

当这样的热度持续时，它似乎会永远持续下去——直到它破裂，而且似乎永远只是海市蜃楼。

The stranger's face had a pained expression of stupor and he seemedto be battling silently against his primary instincts so as not to break up the mirage.

陌生人的脸上带着痛苦的昏迷表情， 他似乎在默默地与自己的本能作斗争， 以免打破海市蜃楼。