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。

Is this a pipe dream?

这只是个白日梦么？

A shiny new pipe dream.

闪亮的管子崭新的梦想。

You can forget it. It's only a pipe dream.

你可以忘掉它，那只是空想。

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。

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。

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。

Her plans for a movie career had all been a pipe dream.

她计划进入影视圈只是痴心妄想。

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。

He would love to have a beautiful mansion, but that is a pipe dream.

他很想有栋豪宅，但只是一种空想。

My friend Johnny has this pipe dream about becoming a famous movie star.

我的朋友约翰尼一直在做白日梦，想成为一个电影明星。

Father's plan to build a forest cabin by the lake was just a pipe dream.

父亲想在湖滨筑一林中小屋的计划不过是个美梦罢了。

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。

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。

She couldn't believe that her plan for a movie career had all been merely a pipe dream.

她无法相信她想从事电影业的计划只是空想。

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。

"T you guys laugh behind my back and say it" s just a pipe dream for me to learn Chinese.

他说：“你们这些家伙别在我背后笑话我，说我英文还讲不清楚，还想学中文，真是在做白日梦。”

This situation might sound like a pipe dream, but it's closer to reality than you might think.

这个情境可能听起来像一场梦，但其实比你想像的真实多了。

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。

You can study acting as long as you like, but starring in a Hollywood movie is just a pipe dream.

只要你喜欢你就可以去学表演，但是主演一部好莱坞电影只是白日梦。

I would like to buy a villa in Spain when I retire, but with my limited resources it is only a pipe dream.

我退休后想在西班牙买一栋别墅，但就我有限的财力而言，这只是一种空想。

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)。

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。

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。

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。

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。