But Transparency International Director of Policy and Research Robin Hodess, says the idea that corruption works is an illusion.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

There are philosophers who have said we certainly believe that we've got free will, but it's an illusion.

有这样一些哲学家,他们说,我们确实相信自己有自由意志,但这只是一种错觉

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Yes, we've got the sense that we could've acted differently, but maybe that's an illusion."

是的,我们曾经觉得,我们可以做出与现实不同的事,但可能这只是错觉

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We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

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It's an illusion,or a delusion,but he didn't really have the genuine memory.

是幻觉，或者错觉，他没有真正的记忆。

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