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- 无济于事be of no avail;a grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff;a pill to cure an earthquake;It does not help the matter.;of no use ;
- 望梅止渴quench one's thirst by thinking of plums -- console oneself with false hopes;feed on fancies;look at plums to quench thirst -- imagined satisfaction;quench thirst by watching plums -- impossible ;
- 纸上谈兵talk about stratagems on paper -- empty talk;armchair strategy;empty phrases on a scrap of paper;engage in idle theorizing;be an armchair strategist ;
- 聊以自慰find relief in; just to console oneself; comfort oneself with the thought that; lay a flattering unction to the soul
- 聊以解嘲manage somehow to relieve embarrassment;in a feeble attempt to silence jeers;make a feeble attempt to explain things away when ridiculed;say or do sth. in order to avoid mockery ;
- 自慰masturbation; console oneself
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不管是望梅止渴,还是画饼充饥,他都会激励你不停手中的浆,去追逐哪怕一星微小的火光。
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好不容易才让晶爽V请我吃一次快餐,因为他也和我一样的画饼充饥的人。
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He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.
他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。
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He can't help thinking it's all just 'pie in the sky' talk.
他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。
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He dismissed their promises as empty talk, nothing more than "pie in the sky".
他把他们的承诺斥为空洞的空话,不过是“画饼充饥”罢了。
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