(recording) During a televised interview with Polish television, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that the announcement dispelled the illusions of those who were counting on the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

If you want to say,no,no,no,those memories are illusions, it must be because you don't think he's really Napoleon.

假如你说，不，那些记忆都是错觉，那是因为你不认为他是真的拿破仑。

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He is the intellectual who enjoys bringing, you might say, the harsh and unremitting facts about human nature to light, who enjoys dispelling illusions and pretty beliefs.

他是一位学者，乐于将人性残酷、,不得宽恕的真实面,摊在阳光下来检视，他更乐于为人破解假想及天真的信念。

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While analysts say no one knows for sure how many jobs the stimulus has created, President Obama says he's under no illusions that one program alone can solve the nation's economic problems.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

And there are some philosophers and psychologists who do just that, who claim that free will and responsibility and spiritual value and intrinsic value are all illusions; they're pre-scientific notions that get washed away in modern science or you could try to reconcile them.

一些哲学家和心理学家便是如此,他们认为,自由意志,责任,精神价值,内在价值,这些都是幻象,都是些前科学的概念,应当从现代科学中清洗出去,或者你可以试着将二者调和

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