pipe dream

常見例句

“They” said what I tried to attain was a pipe-dream and nothing more.
他們說我所嘗試著去獲得的僅僅是黃梁一夢。
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，但是該項目絕非僅是黃梁美夢。
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)邦貸款卻以破産謝幕。在他們眼裡，這足以証明可再生能源衹會浪費金錢，是鴿派政客的春鞦大夢。

With each hour that passes in 2013, this becomes more and more of a pipe-dream.
FORBES: Division In Washington Strikes Again
At the moment, to be trusted more than Labour on health and education is a pipe-dream.
ECONOMIST: Why the Tories are defending the welfare state
This is a pipe-dream, if only because NATO's membership includes such non-EU countries as Canada, Norway and Turkey.
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne