| 1. | The blossoms of life are only a mirage .
生命之花，只是一种空幻。 |
| 2. | Western liberalism was always a mirage .
西方自由主义永远是一座海市蜃楼。 |
| 3. | Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up .
天色虽早，朦胧的海市蜃楼却已经出现。 |
| 4. | Home's assessment now was that a ceasefire in place was a mirage .
霍姆现在认为就地停火纯属空中楼阁。 |
| 5. | There was for him only one trustworthy road through deceptions and mirages .
对他来说只有一条可靠的路能避开幻想和错觉。 |
| 6. | He had melted off into the surface-shimmer of the desert, into the mirage .
他在沙漠里闪闪烁烁的热空气里熔化了，在海市蜃楼的幻景里消失了。 |
| 7. | The mirages had died away and gloomily he ran his eyes along the taut blue line of the horizon .
各种蜃景都已消失了，他郁闷地用眼睛扫着笔直的、蓝蓝的海平线。 |
| 8. | Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon .
睡意笼罩着他，就象缠绵脑际的蜃楼幻影正在同五光十色的环礁湖景致一比高低。 |
| 9. | In spite of the plethora of resolutions and declarations of intent the goal of general and complete disarmament remains a mirage .
尽管有不计其数的决议和意向性的声明，而全面和彻底裁军这一目标仍然是海市蜃楼。 |
| 10. | The apparent reduction in income per capita is a mirage caused by defining the migrants as part of first one nation and then another .
那种表面上的人均收入的降低，乃是由于把移民先是规定为这一国家的一部分，然后又规定为另一国家的一部分而造成的一种假象。 |
