pipe dream

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“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。
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。
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。

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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