Utopia, the perfect society, is unattainable, for there is no such thing.

乌托邦这个完美的社会，则是可望不可及的海市蜃楼。

It's kind of a snare and a delusion to outguess macroeconomic cycles.

它像是海市蜃楼，意图战胜宏观经济循环。

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

科亚尼斯卡茨，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.

尽可以把这些人变出来，可他就像海市蜃楼般的幻景。

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.

你有曾经的道路上见过起伏的扭曲，这种闪烁的海市蜃楼之所以会发生是因为不同的温度和密度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。

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

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？

Of course, at the moment, these buildings seem less like real residential spaces, and rather more like chimeras.

当然，就目前而言，这些建筑看起来不太像真正的住宅空间，而更像是海市蜃楼。

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（理论上本应支撑日元汇率）变得像海市蜃楼一样没有实际用处。

Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage?

或者也许只是追逐海市蜃楼？

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。

And then also which of the consequences are a mirage?

然后哪些后果又是海市蜃楼呢？

I mean, I'm very scared of mirages in general.

的意思是，一般对海市蜃楼非常害怕。

And it seemed almost a mirage, for definite outline was gone from it.

这几乎像是一种海市蜃楼，因为它已经没有了明确的轮廓。

You know to me it's a mirage from the first two weeks.

你知道，从前两周开始，这只是海市蜃楼。

Like a desert mirage, it blends into the dunes, elusive and full of secrets.

犹如沙漠海市蜃楼，融入沙丘之中，难以捉摸，充满秘密。

And thought it was a mirage, but she went over and touched it to make sure it was real, followed a path from that boat to a shack where she found some forest workers who immediately were like, you know, great.

她以为那是海市蜃楼， 但还是走过去摸了摸以确认它是真实的，然后从那艘船沿着一条小路走到一个小屋， 那里她遇到了一些森林工人， 他立刻就说，太好了。

And it's a bit of a mirage because between that And learning new music and performing it is a mountain to climb, but at least they know that they can climb it, because they've had that magic 10 minutes.

这有点像海市蜃楼， 因为那之后， 学习新歌曲并表演它就像翻越一座山，但他至少知道他可以翻越它，因为他有过那神奇的10分钟。

Noon dominated sea and sky--even the white line of Cannes, five miles off, had faded to a mirage of what was fresh and cool; a robin-breasted sailing boat pulled in behind it a strand from the outer, darker sea.

正午主宰着大海和天空——甚至五英里外戛纳的白线也已经褪色，变成了清新凉爽的海市蜃楼；一艘知更鸟胸帆船从更暗的外海中驶入了它的后方。

And though the suit over the will moved ahead of them like a persistent mirage and the financial danger-mark loomed up in the near distance they found, nevertheless, that living within their income was impossible.

尽管关于遗嘱的诉讼像持续不断的海市蜃楼一样他前面移动，并且财务危险标志隐约出现不远处，但他发现，他的收入范围内生活是不可能的。