When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.

在炎热的夏天开车时，你可能会在路上看到闪闪发光的水，但科学告诉我们，这其实只是海市蜃楼，是空气加热造成的幻觉。

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Realization is to a beautiful thing what vanishing is to an illusion and a dream.

一件美的东西的告成就是一个幻觉的破灭，一场好梦的勾销。

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So, what happens is, when you face crisis, all of a sudden you realize that the control was an illusion.

所以，整个情形就是当你面对危机时，突然你意识到这种控制只是一种错觉。

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What is 'real life' for the humans is just an illusion, created to keep their brains active while the machines milk energy from the cerebral cortex.

BBC: Under the Matrix influence

What if the albatross around Merck's neck is an illusion?

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But what the assault on Wiesenfeld shows is that this influence is an illusion.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: CUNY, Tony Kushner and Jeffrey Wiesenfeld