The backbar mirror picked up some of the street-glare and glimmered in the gloom like a mirage.

吧台后面的镜子捕捉到一些大街的光亮，在黑暗处犹如幻景一般闪着光。

Or he was a dating mirage. I was so hungry for a spark, I hallucinated a man.

或许我渴望心动的感觉。所以幻想出那个男人。

For the aspiring undying, Mr Cave unfortunately concludes that immortality is a mirage.

对向往长生不老的人而言遗憾的是，凯夫做出了一个结论：永生是种幻想。

Is it a mirage? No, it really is snowing in the desert.

这是幻想吗？不，沙漠里真的在下雪。

Koyaanisqatsi, life out of balance, a false paradise, a mirage.

科亚尼，失衡的生活，一个虚假的天堂，一个海市蜃楼。

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。

It serves a uniquely American need: Even at the height of desperation, nothing can ever dispel the mirage that riches are available to anyone with the work ethic and (if you insist) a little savvy.

即使在极绝望的时候，也无法消除这样一种幻想：只要有职业道德和一点悟性（如果你坚持的话），财富就能唾手可得。

If you've ever seen wavering distortions above a hot road, that fluttery mirage happens because different temperatures and densities of air bend light in different ways, like a fluid lens.

你有曾经在炎热的道路过起伏的扭曲，这种闪烁的海市蜃楼之所以会发生是因为不同的温和密空气以不同的方式弯曲光线，例如液体镜头。

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。

The wise man, seeing the vanity of all such fictitious charms, regards them as a dream, a mirage, a fantasy.

若有智人。正念观察妇人身体体性如是空无有主。犹如梦幻。

What shortcuts are we attempting to take that are not shortcuts, but rather mirages of greed, laziness, or impatience?

我们试图走的哪些捷径其实不是捷径，而是贪婪、懒惰或急躁的海市蜃楼？

That makes Japan's consistent current-account surplus, which should in theory prop up the currency, something of a mirage.

这使得日本持续的经常账户盈余（在理论本应支撑日元汇率）变得像海市蜃楼一样没有实际用处。

There is straight description ( “a few solitary drinkers at the bar” ) and a bit of rather more poetic description ( “The backbar mirror … glimmered in the gloom like a mirage” ) in my central descriptive paragraph about Palm Too.

在我这段关于乂棕榈餐馆的描述性段落里，既有平铺直叙(“酒吧区坐着几个孤独的酒客”)，也有一些比较诗意的描写（“吧台后面的镜子… … 在黑暗处犹如幻景一般闪着光”)。

So this idea of control and regulation is a mirage. The industry is controlling what's happening.

控制和管理都是纸谈兵。是产业在控制着事态的发展。

Jane Austen's long writing sessions at her desk in Chawton Cottage can seem a fantastic mirage for the knowledge worker facing an endlessly full inbox.

简·奥汀在查顿小屋长时间专注写作的情景，对于每天面对无尽邮件的知识工作者来说，可能就像是一个遥不可及的幻想。

Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage?

或者我们也许只是在追逐海市蜃楼？

He wrote of justice as an empty formula, a mirage and as meaningless.

他写道，正义是一个空洞的公式，一个海市蜃楼，毫无意义。

So much pressure to uphold the mirage.

- 维持幻象的压力真大。

Is that a shiny object mirage that they need to rid themselves of?

那是不是一个他们需要摆脱的闪亮幻象？

At least until the summer, Bedard expects to have Mirages available on his lot.

至少到夏季，Bedard预计他的场地还会有Mirage车型供应。