But managers love to assign hours for a reason: it gives them the illusion that hours can measure performance.

上班时间灵活随意，对我们的团队来说运作的非常好。 但是经理们喜欢规定时间是有原因的：这样做可以给他们一个错觉，工作时间的长短可以转化为评判表现的标准。

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But Thomas Moore says, "Romantic love is an illusion."

托马斯·莫尔说：“浪漫的爱情只是一个虚幻。”

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Despite their love of traditions, Greenlanders are under no illusion that they will return to a past of surviving on what they hunt.

虽然他们很喜爱自己的传统，格陵兰人并不想回到过去那种靠他们打猎所获得的东西来生存的日子。

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An ardent young heiress named Sophie (Lisa Henni) tells him approvingly, almost worshipfully, that when he looks he truly sees, yet Sophie can't see that the man she's falling in love with is an optical illusion, a pair of eyes reporting to a brain that's unconnected to a heart.

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"There is no illusion anymore about 11 football players being like friends, and all these things about 'Real Love' and so on, " Jan-Henrick Gruszecki, one of the founders of Dortmund's biggest fan group, Unity, said, making reference to Dortmund's motto.

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