It is the strangest and most fantastic city in America, glittering in the middle of the desert like a neon mirage.

这是美国最奇特也最迷人的城市，它在沙漠之中闪闪发光就像一座海市蜃楼。

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A problem-free life is an illsion - a mirage in the desert.

没有难题困扰的人生是一个幻想，是沙漠中的海市蜃楼。

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He had melted off into the surface - shimmer of the desert, into the mirage.

他在沙漠里闪闪烁烁的热空气里熔化了，在海市蜃楼的幻景里消失了。

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Mirage in the desert or city of the future, the pull of Dubai is real.

BBC: Living in: Dubai

Or, when we meet again at this Forum in one year or five years or ten, will we have seen the prospects for reform fade and remember this moment as just a mirage in the desert?

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Meanwhile, "social" television has emerged as the ultimate mirage in the Nevada desert.

CNN: How the Consumer Electronics Show lost its spark