You could waste your whole life on a pipe dream.
你可以在白日梦上浪费一辈子时间。
A mile-high mountain in the flatlands of the Netherlands is no longer just a pipe dream, the idea's main supporter, a newspaper columnist, said this weekend.
一个高海拔的山峰将会在荷兰的平原上出现，这不是白日梦。这个想法的支持者，新闻报的专栏作家周末表示。
That might be unrealistic as well, we could see some partial form of that kind of data availability. That much is probably just a pipe dream!
但这也不太现实，恐怕只是黄粱一梦而已，因为我们看到的只是数据可用性的片面形式。
San Francisco (CNN) — Playing Super Mario on a Nintendo phone will remain a pipe dream.
旧金山(CNN)——想在任天堂手机上玩超级马里奥仍然只是一个幻想。
It might sound like a pipe dream, but the OpenFlow consortium already claims to include a number of (still secret) switch manufacturers.
这听起来像是一个不切实际的梦想，但是OpenFlow的联合企业已经宣布了一些(仍然保密)“开关”制造商。
He says expecting Chinese spending to save the world from recession is "a pipe dream."
他说期望中国的消费拯救世界于衰退是一个白日梦。
This is a pipe dream at best--but one that we should at least aspire to.
这充其量就是一个白日梦，不过我们至少应该对此怀有渴望。
But even with all this funding, a million EVs on the road by 2015 May still be just a pipe dream.
然而就算有这么多资金，想要在2015年美国的马路上见到一百万辆电动车，仍然可能只是白日做梦。
My friend Johnny has this pipe dream about becoming a famous movie star. But it won't ever happen. He doesn't have any talent, and he has this high, squeaky voice people don't like to hear.
这个人说：“我的朋友约翰尼一直在白日做梦想成为一个有名的电影明星。但是，他的梦想是永远也不会实现的。他没有一点演员的天才，而且他的嗓子又尖又细，没有人爱听。”
In environments like this, requirements are effectively changing all the time and stability of requirements is a pipe dream.
在这样的环境下，需求随时都会发生有影响的更改，需求的稳定只是个白日梦。
For its detractors, it is a mere pipe dream.
而对于其批评者来说，这只不过是白日做梦。
From underground to up in the air, our final project is a real pipe dream - at least for now.
从地下到天空，最后一个项目是个真正的白日梦——至少在现在。
这只是个白日梦么？
And while we know that having it all, at least all at the same time, can be a dangerous pipe dream that leaves us second-guessing ourselves and feeling that we don't measure up — still we aspire.
我们知道，要拥有这一切，至少，要同时拥有这一切完全是在空想，而且这个危险的空想会让我们总是批评自己的能力并感到自己还不够格，尽管这样，我们却仍然立志于要拥有这一切。
"They" said what I tried to attain was a pipe-dream and nothing more.
他们说我所尝试着去获得的仅仅是黄梁一梦。
Eventually, everyone else will give up on the pipe dream of binary XML and learn to love text (but not by the end of 2007).
其他所有人最后也只能放弃二进制xml的空想而尝试钟爱于文本(但不是在2007年底)。
But critics say that "clean coal" is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change.
然而批评者说，“清洁煤”只是一种幻想，由于二氧化碳的排放是引起气候变化的关键，因此“清洁煤”是一个自相矛盾的概念。
So long as Afghan women are kept in terrified servitude and poverty, peace for that country is likely to remain a pipe dream, let alone any hope of prosperity.
只要奴役和贫穷阴魂不散地缠绕着阿富汗的女人们，这个国家的和平就如同镜花水月，更别说任何对繁荣的憧憬。
The demise of the driving instructor may still be decades away, but the project is no mere pipe-dream.
或许令驾驶教练绝迹尚需几十年，但是该项目绝非仅是黄梁美梦。
But in febrile, partisan Washington that is a pipe-dream.
但是这只是盲目的华盛顿头脑发热的空想罢了。
Her plans for a movie career were nothing but a pipe dream.
她计划进入影视圈简直就是在做白日梦。
Some even point to the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a Californian maker of solar panels which had received lots of federal money, as proof that renewable energy is a wasteful pinko pipe-dream.
此家公司得到大笔联邦贷款却以破产谢幕。在他们眼里，这足以证明可再生能源只会浪费金钱，是鸽派政客的春秋大梦。
Bridging the gap between business and it has always been, for the most part, a pipe dream for many a sponsor of SOA initiatives.
对于众多的SOA方案来说，想要填平业务与IT之间的鸿沟简直就是白日做梦。
For me, it is just a pipe dream to travel to The Moon.
对我而言，去月球旅行只是白日梦。
The idiom of “a pipe dream” has now become wildly known around China, but the story still remained unfamiliar to most people.
黄粱一梦这个成语可谓家喻户晓，但是故事并不是每个人都熟悉。
闪亮的管子崭新的梦想。
This is no unfunded pipe-dream. The city is already required to spend $6.8 billion over 20 years to meet harbour-quality standards.
这并不是纽约在做一场不用花钱的白日梦，在过去的20年里该城市已经花费了68亿美元使处理过的污水达到港口质量标准。
This is no unfunded pipe-dream. The city is already required to spend $6.8 billion over 20 years to meet harbour-quality standards.
这并不是纽约在做一场不用花钱的白日梦，在过去的20年里该城市已经花费了68亿美元使处理过的污水达到港口质量标准。
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