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。

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。

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.

我尽可以把这些人变出来，可他们就像海市蜃楼般的幻景。

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

当然，就目前言，这些建筑看起来不太像真正的住宅，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.

这使得持续的经常账户盈余（在理论上应支撑率）变得像海市蜃楼一样没有实际用处。

Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage?

或者我们也许只是在追逐海市蜃楼？

So much pressure to uphold the mirage.

- 维持海市蜃楼的压力如此之大。

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。

I drove my feet through a desert Whose mirage fluttered like a host.

我驱车穿过沙漠 那里的海市蜃楼像主人一样飘动。

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。

Yet much of this strong performance is, in a sense, a mirage.

然，从某种意义上来说，这种强劲表现很大程度上只是海市蜃楼。

The mirage of real food is around, but it doesn't really exist.

真正的食物的海市蜃楼似乎存在，但其实并不存在。

It is a kaleidoscopic mirage of analytical optics that disguises the heap within.

它是分析光学的万花筒般的海市蜃楼，掩盖了里面的堆积物。

Hedge-fund executives have already reacted angrily to “The Hedge Fund Mirage”, which suggests that looking into the mirror may be painful.

对冲基金总裁们已经对《对冲基金的海市蜃楼》一书表示愤怒，这显示了要面对镜子里的自己是痛苦的。

She knew what she had seen in the mirage— Fremen riding on the back of a giant worm.

她知道自己在海市蜃楼中看到了什么——骑在巨虫背上的弗雷曼人。

Since recognition thus appears to offer solution of his conflicts, it becomes the saving mirage he pursues.

既然认可似乎能解决他的冲突，它就成了他追求的救命海市蜃楼。

Yet with each passing day, the prospect of Republican cooperation appeared more and more like a distant mirage.

然，随着时的推移，共和党合作的前景越来越像一个遥远的海市蜃楼。

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。

He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.

他穿过一片黄色的平原，那里的回声重复着一个人的思想，焦虑带来了预兆性的海市蜃楼。