Soon my father appeared as elusive as a distant mirage.

很快，父亲的身影变成了一个遥不可及的幻影。

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This means the elusive A-list couple spends more than half a million dollars on childcare each year!

这意味着这对夫妇在照顾孩子们这一方面每年要花至少50万美元。

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On FRIDAY afternoons, residents of Washington, DC, often find a clear route out of the city as elusive as a deal to cut the deficit.

每个星期五的下午，华盛顿特区的居民都会看到一条清晰的线延伸至市外，这条线如同削减赤字的协议一般难以描述。

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Today it is a surge. But now,like then,American troops hunt the rough terrain for an elusive enemy who hides among the populace or takes sanctuary across the border in a neighboring country.

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Who was this strange and elusive man whose writings seem to have been enlisted both for the support of monarchy and for republics, even for a universal monarchy and a smaller participatory democratic kind of government?

这位奇怪，难以理解的人是谁,他的写作似乎同时横跨,支持君主政体及共和政体两个范畴，甚至可说是一种世界帝国,和相较下,式微的参与式共和政府？

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Medicine prolongs life and slows aging, but personal satisfaction is as elusive a commodity as it was for Dorian Gray.

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But, Matthew Kelly, the head of Floyd Consulting, reminds the couple that work-life balance may be elusive for a reason.

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Successful subscription models for music have proved elusive for a similar reason.

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