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

所以尽管跨国公司没有受到重大影响，但这件事并非完全不重要。

If they seem occasionally insubstantial, it is because their substance is of a different quality.

如果它们偶尔看起来不实在，这是因为它们内容属于一种不同品质。

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

如果你觉得这些东西似乎很不坚实，请记住：在显微镜下，事形式是不同。

Her present life, her work, the friends she had, seemed insubstantial compared with all that had happened before.

当前生活、工作、朋友，跟以往发生那些事相比， 似乎都不重要。

It is very compelling but insubstantial evidence.

这是非常有说服力但非实质性证据。

Her body seemed to wither and become more insubstantial each day.

身体似乎一天比一天枯萎，变得更加虚弱。

The approaching territory looked vague, insubstantial, as if glinced in peripheral vision.

前方领地显得模糊不清，虚无缥缈，仿佛只是眼角余光中一瞥。

It's 20% to 25% of the market, so not insubstantial.

这一比例占市场20%至25%，因此并非微不足道。

Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade.

Zeena 本人， 从一个压实中， 已经消失在一个虚幻阴影中。

But if you look, you look for that sense, you know, it's insubstantial and it's fluxing and changing.

但如果你去观察， 你会找到那种感觉，你知道，它是虚幻， 而且在不断变化。

Um, and that brings me to World War I. Woodrow Wilson and the not insubstantial anti-war, uh, movements.

这让我谈到了第一次世界大战，伍德罗·威尔逊以及规模不小反战运动。

So the longer the kings went on selling access and honor, the less these insubstantial distinctions were worth.

因此， 国王们越久地出售这种接近权和荣誉，这些虚无缥缈差别就越不值钱。

In his studio, a Hawaiian artist paints the images of a past that now seems as insubstantial as dream.

在他工作室里，一位夏威夷艺术家描绘着一个如今看来仿佛梦一般过往景象。

I realized that I was none of it, that everything I'd stood for was insubstantial and ridiculous.

我认识到它们没有一个是我，我认识到过去我所坚持一切既无实质又荒谬可笑。

A haze, an opaque vapor, is the effect of a glow; it is even more insubstantial, a third-order phenomenon.

薄雾，一种不透明蒸气，是发光效果。它更加虚无缥缈，是一种三阶象。

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。

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，它们加起来会让国王成为世界上最富有人之一。

So he's embezzling around 100 pounds a year, which is not an insubstantial amount of money, straight into his own pocket.

所以他每年贪污大约100英镑，这可不是一笔小数目，直接进了他自己口袋。

And in the Institute, his skills actually come to the fore more than usual, because the story itself is fairly insubstantial.

而在研究院中， 他技能实际上比平时更加突出，因为故事本身相当单薄。

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.

所有那些色彩斑斓污迹和松散笔触，与立体派和未来派严谨形式相比，似乎都是空洞而短暂。