The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.

里面电话又响了，大家都吃了一惊。黛西断然地对汤姆摇摇头，于是马房的话题，事实上所有的话题，都化为乌有了。

To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.

怕待在栅栏后面，习以为常，年老体衰，所有立下丰功伟绩的机会都化为乌有，再也唤不回，或唤。

23 years gone with the stroke of a pen.

笔一挥， 23年婚姻化为乌有。

Any others, and the virus will erase the entire system.

如果毁完好的硬碟，整个系就会被病毒化为乌有。

Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-fespecting student would ever indulge in.

请消防队来扑灭一场子虚乌有的大火是一种低级骗局，有自尊的大学生决不沉溺其中。

Hyperinflation had gripped Weimar Germany, wiping out Kafka's pension.

恶性通货膨胀笼罩着魏玛德国，使卡夫卡的退休金化为乌有。

They were in it, they mattered, they belonged, and then, poof.

他们曾是其中一员，他们的存在举足轻重，他们属于那里，然而，转眼间，一切化为乌有。

Uh, two hours of Mitchell's hard work going down the drain.

米奇尔辛苦了两小时的成果就要化为乌有了。

President Trump called the story fake news.

特朗普这一消息子虚乌有。

If we lose the reef, all of that is lost.

如果我们失了珊瑚礁，所有这一切都将化为乌有。

Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

纵使你详查他的住处，亦将化为乌有。

For a hungry T. Rex, it means a meal has simply vanished into thin air.

对饥饿的雷克斯霸王龙来说，这就意味着一顿美餐化为乌有。

It's Katherine. She got under his skin. She undid everything that was good about him.

是凯瑟琳的事。她迷惑了他的。使一切善良的部分化为乌有。

The recent developments are seen as cancelling 10 years of work by the United States.

最近的事态进展似乎让美国最近十年的工作化为乌有。

There are no arch-enemies in real life. Doesn't happen.

现实中不存在死敌，是子虚乌有之事。

Trump responded to the leaked questions by claiming they vindicated him, tweeting that there were no questions about collusion (there are, in fact, 13) and that it's " very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened."

面对调查问题被泄，特朗普回应说那些问题恰好证明了他的清白，他在推特上说到，那些问题中并没有关于共谋的问题(事实上，有13个)，而且，“对于子虚乌有的罪行，阻碍司法公正是很难的。”

If there's no professional email footer or any accessible contact information, then it's likely that you're dealing with a fake job offer.

如果没有专业邮件页脚或任何可用的联系方式信息，那么你面对的很可能就是一个子虚乌有的工作机会。

The trampled acres of Tara were all that was left to her, now that Mother and Ashley were gone, now that Gerald was senile from shock, and money and darkies and security and position had vanished overnight.

塔拉那些被践踏的耕地现在是留给思嘉的唯一财富，因为艾希礼和母亲已经死，杰拉尔德又在战争折磨下变得十分衰老，而金钱、黑人、安全和地位都在一夜之间全部化为乌有了。

Villefort had often told himself that one day this moment would happen—the moment when all he had worked for would vanish and he would be disgraced.

维尔福经常告诉自己这一刻早晚都会到来——而当这一刻到来时，他为之奋斗的一切将会化为乌有，他会遭到贬低。

If you like an alliterative phrase—the knights of nowhere battling the nabobs of nullity—by all means throw it in and see how it looks on paper.

如果你喜欢某句押头韵的短语一(乌有地武士大战其人富豪）一不管三七二十一，先把这句话记下来，看看白纸黑字写出来是个什么样子。