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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As an educational video made about the experiment put it, "What happened surprised everyone, including Zimbardo." The illusion became reality.

就像关于这个实验的一个教育视频描述的那样：发生的一切让我们每个人包括Zimbardo吃惊的是——幻想变成了现实。

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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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Well, tonight, the cynics who believed that what began in the snows of Iowa was just an illusion were told a different story by the good people of South Carolina.

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