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，这是因为它们的内容属于种不同的品质。

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，事物的表现形式是不同的。

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

所以尽管跨国公司有受影响，但这件事并非完全不要。

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

她当前的生活、她的工作、她的朋友，跟以往发生的那些事相比， 似乎都不要。

Life seems to me so insubstantial, so filled with eggshells that I will predict nothing.

在我看来, 生活是如此虚无, 如此充满蛋壳, 以至于我什都不会预测。

It is very compelling but insubstantial evidence.

这是非常有说服力但非实质性的证据。

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

她的身体似乎天比天枯萎，变得更加虚弱。

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

Zeena 本人， 从个压抑的现实中， 已经消失在个虚幻的阴影中。

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

我认识它们有个是我，我认识过去我所坚持的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，种不透明的蒸气，是发光的效果。它更加虚无缥缈，是种三阶现象。

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的，它们加起来会让国王成为世界上最富有的人之。

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，有种不真实感，好像阵风就会把他吹走。

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.

所有那些色彩斑斓的污迹和松散的笔触，与立体派和未来派严谨的形式相比，似乎都是空洞而短暂的。

The billowing banks of fog thus created might look insubstantial, but there is water here to be captured-and in this, the driest place on Earth, capture it people do.

由此产生的滚滚雾可能看起来并不真实，但这里有水可以收集——在这里，在这个地球上最干燥的地方，人们是这样做的。

This was the thing that was important, the cycle of life, with birth and death merging one into the other in an imperceptible twilight and an insubstantial dawn.

这是最要的事情， 生命的循环， 生与死在难以察觉的黄昏和虚幻的黎明中相互融合。

An imagination of this vigorous cast can give existence to insubstantial forms, and stability to the shadowy reveries which the mind naturally falls into when realities are found vapid.

这种充满活力的想象力可以使虚无缥缈的形式存在，并使人们在发现现实乏味时头脑自然陷入的阴暗幻想稳定下来。

If ever she looked ahead she felt instinctively that the gulf between them was too deep, and that the bridge their passion had flung across it was as insubstantial as a rainbow.

如果她向前看， 她会本能地感他们之间的鸿沟太深，他们的激情跨越它的桥梁像彩虹样虚无缥缈。

Informal essays are, by and large, silly and insubstantial things; unless you get a job as a columnist at your local newspaper, writing such fluffery is a skill you'll never use in the actual mall-and-filling-station world.

所谓非正式的随笔半写的都是些滑稽琐事；除非你在当地小报上开专栏，否则写这等琐屑零碎的本事在这个布满商场加油站的现实世界中根本派不上用场。