Is all this talk of an end to waste just pie in the sky?

所有这些关于终结垃圾的高谈阔论是否都只是？

" It's absolutely pie in the sky, no question about it, " McDonough said.

“毫无疑问，绝对是。”麦克多诺说。

" You'd have to take your favorite one. What is it? " asked Meg.

“你得选择一个你所偏爱的。那是什么呢？”梅格问。

" Wouldn't you have a master for your castle in the air? " asked Laurie slyly.

“你的是否需要一个男主人呢？”劳里调皮地问。

As he walked along, his brain was busy planning hundreds of wonderful things, building hundreds of castles in the air.

他一路走，他的小脑袋瓜里浮现出成千个幻想，成千，越来越美。

" Wouldn't you have a master for your castle in the air" ?

“你的就没有主人吗”？

When his castle in the air fell down, it buried him beneath the ruins.

当他的然倒下， 将他葬于废墟之下。

" You'd have nothing but horses, inkstands, and novels in yours, " answered Meg petulantly.

“在你的里，除了马、墨水台和传奇小说之外，你是什么都不要的，”梅格没好气地回答。

Hope of a cure is just pie in the sky.

【pie】找到治疗方法的希望不过是罢了。

" But suppose the whole scheme should turn out to be a castle in the air" ?

“但假设整个计划最终变成了” ？

And when that single point of failure actually did begin to fail in 2015, the flimsy house of cards began to rapidly collapse.

当这个故障点真的在 2015 年开始出现问题时，脆弱的开始迅速倒塌。

Is this pie in the sky? A distant caveat-strewn commitment is good publicity for United and for Boom when it seeks more funding.

这会是吗？对美联航和寻求更多融资的Boom公司来说，遥远的承诺加上时不时发布警告饶是一种不错的宣传方式。

" Mine is to stay at home safe with Father and Mother, and help take care of the family, " said Beth contentedly.

“我的是和父亲，母亲安安稳稳地待在家里，帮着照管全家，”贝思满足地说。

" I've got the key to mine, but I'm not allowed to try it. Hang college! " muttered Laurie with an impatient sigh.

“我也有了我的钥匙，却不准我使用它。该死的大学！”劳里咕哝着说，还不耐烦地叹了口气。

" Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them" ?

“如果我们建造的所有都能成真，我们可以住在里面，那不是很有趣吗”？

" I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen, " observed Jo mysteriously.

“我已经有了我的钥匙，但是否能打开那扇门，还要等着瞧，”乔神秘地说。

" I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have, " said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him.

“我设想了大量的，简直难于选择究竟要哪一个。”劳里说时平躺在地上，把球果向先前暴露他行踪的松鼠丢去。

" Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them? " said Jo, after a little pause.

“如果我们设想的能够成为现实，并且我们能住在里面，这不是很有趣吗？”乔稍为停顿了一下说。

Let us listen, as in duty bound, to what the elders are saying first, for they are already building castles in air for the boys and girls to inhabit.

让我们出于责任感，先听听长辈们是怎么说的，因为他们已经在为男孩女孩们建造。

" As you command, " he said, as if her fears were groundless. " Do you still mean to go ahead and burn the Tower of the Hand" ?

" 遵命，" 他轻飘飘地说，当她的恐惧全是没来由的。" 你还是坚持要烧首相塔？"