Success always seems as inevitable in retrospect as it is elusive when sought.

人们回想过去时候，总功本来是十拿九稳，而在追求功时，它却虚无缥缈。

White-haired characters are usually mature, ethereal and magical.

而白发角色通常是熟，缥缈，神秘。

He praised, " the musical of the mystical prose" .

“虚无缥缈有韵味散文。”

I find myself afraid of things that I can't name or point to.

我感自己害怕些虚无缥缈东西。

It's crazy; they spend hours arguing about things that don't even exist.

太荒唐了；他们竟然花大量时间讨论这些虚无缥缈东西。

And who will dare say it is more illusory than happiness on the installment plan?

谁又敢说他幸福从分期付款计划中获幸福更虚无缥缈呢？

And I don't want to give 'em false hope.

我不想让他们抱有虚无缥缈希望。

It was a nothing that he knew too well.

他心里很有数，这是虚无缥缈。

It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too.

全是虚无缥缈，人也是虚无缥缈。”

The costs of the monarchy are considerable, the gains fleeting, mythical or the stuff of PR fantasies.

王室开支是巨大，收益却显转瞬即逝，虚无缥缈或像是公关幻想。

But for today's show we are going to focus on the dream–like, or ethereal, part of Los Angeles.

但在节目中，我们将把重点放在梦幻般，或者说是缥缈部分洛杉矶样子。

This nickname comes from the shiny, bright and often unreal nature of Hollywood and the movie industry.

之所以有这个别名，是因为好莱坞和电影行业星光璀璨，虚无缥缈本质。

In such an ocean of white, the many peaks appear to float in the clouds like islands.

虚无缥缈一片白色海洋中众多山峰像小岛一样漂浮云中。

It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order.

“人所需要只是虚无缥缈和亮光以及干干净净和井井有条。

You just feel it, and it hangs in the air. It owns — it dominates — every time period, you know.

你只是感到它，它虚无缥缈。它拥有着——它主导着——每一个时间节点。

The brave, happy and confident man of the 1960s and 1970s became a miserable racist, a campaigner for hatred and nihilism.

60年代勇敢、自信、快乐德米特里•杜德科神父死了，70年代德米特里•杜德科神父变一个卑鄙无耻种族主义分子，一个满脑子仇恨、虚无缥缈沿街叫骂人。

A dream, a vision is not an intangible, unreal, imaginary piece of fiction.

一个梦想，一个愿景并不是虚无缥缈、不真实幻想。

Her world was too simple, and all she had were ethereal theories.

她世界太过简单，她拥有只有缥缈理论。

You know... They're hairdressers in Wispy Forrest.

切尔西：你知道吗… … 她们是缥缈森林理发师。

I don't want to write a woo-woo mushy book.

我不想写那种虚无缥缈、情感泛滥书。