For the aspiring undying, Mr Cave unfortunately concludes that immortality is a mirage.

对向往长生不老人而言遗憾是，凯夫做出了一个结论：永生是种幻想。

Or he was a dating mirage. I was so hungry for a spark, I hallucinated a man.

或许我渴望心动感觉。所以幻想出那个男人。

So this idea of control and regulation is a mirage. The industry is controlling what's happening.

和管理都是纸上谈兵。是产业在事态发展。

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幻景。

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

科亚尼斯卡茨，失衡生活，一个虚假天堂，一个海市蜃楼。

Is it a mirage? No, it really is snowing in the desert.

这是幻想吗？不，沙漠里真在下雪。

The backbar mirror picked up some of the street-glare and glimmered in the gloom like a mirage.

吧台后面镜子捕捉到一些大街上光亮，在黑暗处犹如幻景一般闪光。

That makes Japan's consistent current-account surplus, which should in theory prop up the currency, something of a mirage.

这使得日本持续账户盈余（在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。

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“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，也如一张隐蔽婴儿床一般。

So much pressure to uphold the mirage.

- 维持海市蜃楼压力如此之大。

Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage?

或者我们也许只是在追逐海市蜃楼？

It's so much pressure to uphold that mirage all the time.

一直维持这种幻想压力太大了。

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。

Is this a mirage sitting before me?

坐在我面前难道是幻象么？

Her office, her life, it's all a mirage.

她办公室 她生活 都是假。

The wise man, seeing the vanity of all such fictitious charms, regards them as a dream, a mirage, a fantasy.

若有智人。正念观察妇人身体体性如是空无有主。犹如梦幻。

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

它是分析光学万花筒般海市蜃楼，掩盖了里面堆积物。

Or is it just a neon mirage?

或者它只是一道霓虹，稍纵即逝？

So the Bears were a mirage win this week on offense.

因此，本周熊队在进攻上取得了幻影般胜利。

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

然而，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。