With prices rising, that achievement now looks illusory.

随着能源价格的上涨，这一成就现在看起来是虚幻的。

Or does she just care about the illusory image that I'm projecting right now?

还是她只是喜欢我现在营造出的幻象？

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得的幸福更虚无缥缈呢？

That plan called for a strategy of real and illusory events, using a disinformation program to make Quddafi think the United States was about to move against him militarily.

那个计划提倡一种既真实又虚幻的策略，使用虚假情报，让卡扎菲为美国要在军事上对付他。

Now, a new study suggests we also do something else: we tend to see those illusory faces as having a gender -- and most often we think they're male.

现在，一项新研究为我们的想象不限于此：我们还常常为这虚幻面孔有性别之分——通常会把它们当做男的。

As Bee Wilson argued in these pages, the high proportion of processed ingredients in these products means the so-called health halo they enjoy may well be illusory.

正如比·威尔逊在文章中指出的那样，这产品中高比例的加工成分意味着他们所享受的所谓健康光环很可能是虚幻的。

In one study, participants reported seeing illusory faces in over 35% of pure-noise images shown to them, despite the fact that nothing was there.

在一个研究中，被试者反映在提供的超过 35% 的纯随机案中，看到人脸，尽管这中其实什么都没有。

Mr Culp, the firm's boss since 2018, speaks of the " illusory benefits of synergy" to be traded for the certain benefits of focus.

卡尔普自2018年以来一直是该公司的老板，他谈到了用“协同效应的虚幻好处”来换取专注的某好处。

Our world takes on an illusory existence, and what is being spun is a cocoon which in the end will completely envelop us.

我们的世界呈现出一种虚幻的存在，而正在编织的是一个茧，最终它将完全把我们包裹起来。

This effect explains why more than 100 studies have shown that people display illusory superiority.

此效应解析了为什么有100多项研究表明人们有虚幻的优越性。

Here's where the illusory nature of our problems works to our advantage: problems don't exist outside our perception.

问题的虚幻本质在这里对我们有利：问题不存在于我们的感知之外。

In this state, a person appears merely unconscious — sleeping perhaps — but this is illusory.

在这种状态下，一个人看起来只是无意识——也许是睡着了——但这是幻觉。

Repetition helps persuade people that something is correct, a phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect.

重复有助于说服人们某件事是正确的，这种现象被称为“真相幻觉效应”。

They're among the layer of conventional truth that obscures the absolute truth; they are as illusory as everything else our minds create.

它们是传统真理的一层，掩盖了绝对真理；它们和我们大脑创造的一切一样虚幻。

But that made them wonder: what do we see in these illusory faces?

我们在这假面孔中看到了什么呢？

It might seem concerning that our brains can be so wrong so often, but these illusory faces might actually be a byproduct of something evolutionarily advantageous.

我们的大脑经常出错，这似乎令人担忧，但是这想象的面孔可能是进化优势的副作用。

" … there was a strong bias for people to perceive illusory faces as male rather than female."

“人们具有强烈的倾向即将虚幻面孔视为男性而不是女性。”

With this tool, researchers revealed that the brain generally recognizes a face as illusory within a quarter of a second — around the same time that we can identify most non-face visual stimuli.

利用这个工具，研究者们揭露了大脑通常在四分之一秒内出想象的面孔，这和我们出非人脸视觉刺激的时间相近。

" And it suggests that we see illusory faces because, like other social primates, our brains are so tuned into faces, we don't want to miss a single face in the environment, even if that means occasionally making a mistake."

“这说明，其它好社交的灵长目动物一样，我们能看到虚拟面孔是因为大脑如此了解面孔，我们不想错过环境中的面孔，哪怕偶尔会误。”

People will even assign gender, age, and emotion to illusory faces.

人们甚至会给想象的面孔加上性别、年龄以及情绪的设定。