Understandably, we were not exposed to inmates directly; instead, we had to peek through small openings and Windows to get a hint of their elusive presence.
可以理解，我们并没有直接暴露在囚犯的面前。相反，我们必须通过小孔和窗户来少许了解这些难以捉摸的囚犯。
Wildlife was also elusive: I spotted a water buffalo, a couple of goats, several egrets and kingfishers but not one - in the fabled Land of a Million Elephants - elephant.
野生动物也难觅踪影：我看见一只水鸟、两头山羊、几只白鹭和翠鸟，但是在这个号称有百万大象的地方，连一头大象也没有看到。
This exhibition promises not just to celebrate the work of an important artist, but to pin down an elusive figure.
这次的展览绝对不只是歌颂一位颇具影响力的艺术家的成就，更是要揭开他的神秘面纱，确立他的形象。
She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.
她并不知道，这感觉太微妙，难以捉摸，无法去描述。
This optimum state is not only elusive, it is also hyper-fragile to small changes in the environment, and therefore often irrelevant to understanding what is going on.
这种最优状态不但难寻其踪，而且对于来自外部的微小扰动极其敏感，因此它对于系统的演化往往无足轻重。
I suspect that in the not-too-distant future, backyard gardeners like myself will have the option of planting genetically modified trees that offer the elusive dream of home-grown organic apples.
我猜想，在不远的将来，像我这样的后花园种植者会有机会种植转基因作物来实现自己种植有机食品的难以理解的梦想。
The mood is hazy and elusive, with simple melodies and a high register chosen (she has said) so as not to make the record overbearing and didactic.
这张碟带出迷茫让人难以捉摸的心绪，朴质悦耳的旋律和刻意选择的高声域（如她所说）是为了给专辑洗去所有假正经的说教意味。
Permeability remains an elusive parameter that is not directly measurable by geophysical methods.
渗透率则是一个不能用地球物理学方法直接测出的、捉摸不定的参数。
Yet if the resulting income gains prove elusive to wage and salary workers, that promise may not be realised.
假如工薪阶层和劳动者也搞不懂最终到的收入所得，这种诺言可能是实现不了的。
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste.
“伟大”并不是什么特殊的人才能体会到的特质，也没有那么精妙奇异、难以捉摸，甚至被神化。
In a way they are right but they fail to see that "good" is not a vague elusive entity but a force of which they are an integral part and in which they play a central role.
某种意义上他们是对的，但是他们没有看到“善”不是一个虚无缥缈的存在，而是一种不可或缺的力量，它起到了一个关键的作用。
It is not much of a secret that most people would prefer their teeth embodied the classic pearly white appearance that can be a bit elusive.
大多数人都追求经典的珍珠般亮白的牙齿，这早已不是一个秘密，但是却不容易做到。
The feeling of happiness so elusive. Grip in the palm of the hand do not think it is; an opening hand, they could not bear.
幸福的感觉，如此不可捉摸。握在手心，觉得不实在；一放开手，又舍不得。
Clever Gemini enjoy elusive love, love the natural not whitewash the love, love romance.
聪慧的双子享受捉摸不定的爱情，喜欢自然没有粉饰的爱情，倾心浪漫情调。
It is not some elusive nirvana of perfection and romantic sunsets.
它不是一些难以捉摸的完美涅磐和浪漫的夕阳。
It is not some elusive nirvana of perfection and romantic sun sets.
它不是一些难以捉摸的完美涅磐和浪漫的夕阳。
Your dream life is not something that will appear to you, or not, like an elusive, mythical unicorn.
你梦想的生活方式也许不会出现，如果出现，它也不会像一直神秘魔幻的独角兽那样现身。
Phantasmagoria are not mere figments of our imagination, they also serve to shape the incomprehensible and the elusive and make it manageable.
幻影不仅是我们想象中的虚构事物，它也有助于表现难以理解和难以实现的事物，并使之易于驾驭。
Peace in the Middle East will be elusive if this issue is not resolved.
这个问题一天得不到解决，中东和平就难以实现。
Computers, he found, could not pinpoint the elusive particles, but a practiced human eye could.
他发现，电脑并不能精确找到这难以捉摸的星尘粒子。
"Broken six" era may not be elusive.
“破六”时代也许不是那么遥不可及。
BREATHING TWICEalso looks at less visible lines, especially the elusive, disappearing lines that may, or may not, divide one frame of reference from another.
《我的玉》同样关注那些不那么可见的，尤其是含混的、正在消失中的线性关系，这些线性关系也许可以或者不可以划分不同的参考标准。
One of the most elusive ways that procrastinators abuse time and do not sync their subjective time with objective time is underestimating how long a task will take to complete.
阻断时间，指在你的日程表中伴随着任务或项目的进行而划分出一定的时间，在你能很准确的估计你完成某项任务将要花费的时间时，这将会使你工作的更好。
"Failures are more finely etched in our minds than triumphs, and success is an elusive, if not mythic, goal in our demanding society" (Hugh Drummond).
“失败比胜利更容易刻在我们脑中，成功在我们这个需求的社会是一个难于描述的，如果不是神秘的话，目的在我们的社会需求中”(休·德拉蒙德)。
As Linda, you will find that you are not the only one looking for these elusive books.
和琳达一样，你也会发现你并不是唯一一位在寻找这些隐秘之书的人。
As Linda, you will find that you are not the only one looking for these elusive books.
和琳达一样，你也会发现你并不是唯一一位在寻找这些隐秘之书的人。
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