It was easy to see why he had been so shy, so unsophisticated , so idealistic.
如今已经很容易理解他为什么那样羞怯，那样单纯，那样不切实际了。Think about how much unnecessary and unrealistic pressure you might be putting on yourself.
想想你给自己施加了多少不必要和不切实际的压力。A little girl trying to be the impossible is an illusion that can build to tragedy.
一个心智尚未成熟的小女孩幻想成为不可能的公主，这种不切实际的妄想为以后的悲剧埋下导火索。This, indeed, is one of his main virtues as a politician: he has beliefs, but few are so devout as to be utterly impractical.
这一点确实是他作为一名政客的美德：他有信念，然而过分虔诚反而显得完全不切实际的，倒也没有几个。And as for her, one might as well expect her to produce a diamond necklace as to show a spark of passion.
至于这个姑娘，希冀她表现出一丝一毫的激情犹如指望她拿出一条宝石项链一样不切实际。So if you feel like a bit of a do-gooder sometimes, it's perfectly normal.
所以如果你觉得自己有时候像一个不切实际的社会改良家，这是很正常的。His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.
他的那些妄想始终是霍迪尼式的：那些不切实际的梦想就如同虫蛹在茧中奋力挣扎，狂热地渴望体验阳光和空气一般。Researchers did not know whether field termination and splicing of optical cables would ever be practical.
研究人员不知道是否领域终止和光缆接续将永远是不切实际的。When it comes to testing these objects, it is often expensive, impractical, or inefficient to instantiate these collaborators.
当开始测试这些对象时，实例化这些合作者（collaborator）通常是昂贵的、不切实际的或效率低的。