pipe dream

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“They” said what I tried to attain was a pipe-dream and nothing more.
他們說(shuō)我所嘗試著去獲得的僅僅是黃梁一夢(mèng)。
The demise of the driving instructor may still be decades away, but the project is no mere pipe-dream.
或許令駕駛教練絕跡尚需幾十年，但是該項(xiàng)目絕非僅是黃梁美夢(mèng)。
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.
此家公司得到大筆聯(lián)邦貸款卻以破產(chǎn)謝幕。在他們眼里，這足以證明可再生能源只會(huì)浪費(fèi)金錢(qián)，是鴿派政客的春秋大夢(mèng)。

With each hour that passes in 2013, this becomes more and more of a pipe-dream.
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At the moment, to be trusted more than Labour on health and education is a pipe-dream.
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This is a pipe-dream, if only because NATO's membership includes such non-EU countries as Canada, Norway and Turkey.
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