Success always seems as inevitable in retrospect as it is elusive when sought.

人们回想过去的时候，总觉成功本来是十拿九稳的，而在追求成功时，它却缈。

What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.

在今天人人附和或以为不妨默认的真理，很可能在明天变成缈的氤氲，但还会有人认为是乌云，可以将一阵甘霖洒落上来。

White-haired characters are usually mature, ethereal and magical.

而白发角色通常是成熟，缈，神秘。

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.

跟盖茨比和汤姆-布坎农不一样，我的眼前没有什么情人的面影沿着阴暗的檐口和耀眼的招牌缈浮动，于是我把身边这个女孩子拉更近一点，同时胳臂搂更紧。

But for today's show we are going to focus on the dream–like, or ethereal, part of Los Angeles.

但在今天的节目中，我们将把重点放在梦幻般的，或者说是缈的部分洛杉矶的样子。

He praised, " the musical of the mystical prose" .

“缈有韵味的散文。”

I find myself afraid of things that I can't name or point to.

我感觉自己害怕些缈的东西。

It's crazy; they spend hours arguing about things that don't even exist.

太荒唐了；他们竟然花量的时间讨论这些缈的东西。

And who will dare say it is more illusory than happiness on the installment plan?

谁又敢说他的幸福比从分期付款计划中获的幸福更缈呢？

And I don't want to give 'em false hope.

我不想让他们抱有缈的希望。

It was a nothing that he knew too well.

他心里很有数，这是缈。

The costs of the monarchy are considerable, the gains fleeting, mythical or the stuff of PR fantasies.

王室的开支是巨的，收益却显转瞬即逝，缈或像是公关的幻想。

The judge threw out the package of stock options in January, worth around $56bn at the time, describing it as " an unfathomable sum" that was not good for shareholders.

今年1月，法官驳回了当时价值约560亿美元的一揽子股票期权计划，称其为“一笔缈的资金”，对股东不利。

There was no doubt that her mind was inclined thitherward; indefinitely, fancifully—twining and untwining about him as the single object within her horizon on which dreams might crystallize.

毫疑问，她的心思是朝着那个方向的；她思绪缈，充满幻想——把韦狄作为视野里唯一能使梦想变为现实的物体，围着他索回往复。

" This is not out of some woolly desire to sit in a circle and sing Lennon's 'Imagine', this is to remind people that free societies are stronger societies."

“这不是什么围坐在一起唱约翰•列侬的《想象》的那种缈的愿景，这是为了提醒人们，一个自由的社会是一个更美好的社会。”

Once we'd disconnected from the surface, it was like going through a void of space and then landing on an alien planet, it was very much like that.

与母船脱离后，我们就好像在穿越一段缈的空间，然后降落在一个异星的表面，就是这种感觉。

You just feel it, and it hangs in the air. It owns — it dominates — every time period, you know.

你只是感觉它，它缈。它拥有着——它主导着——每一个时间节点。

The brave, happy and confident man of the 1960s and 1970s became a miserable racist, a campaigner for hatred and nihilism.

60年代勇敢、自信、快乐的德米特里•杜德科神父死了，70年代的德米特里•杜德科神父变成一个卑鄙耻的种族主义分子，一个满脑子仇恨、缈的沿街叫骂的人。

This nickname comes from the shiny, bright and often unreal nature of Hollywood and the movie industry.

之所以有这个别名，是因为好莱坞和电影行业星光璀璨，缈的本质。

In such an ocean of white, the many peaks appear to float in the clouds like islands.

缈的一片白色海洋中众多的山峰像小岛一样漂浮云中。