3PHRASE 难以付诸实施的构想(或计划);渺茫的希望;空口的许诺 If you describe an idea, plan, or promise of something good as pie in the sky, you mean that you think that it is very unlikely to happen. 难以付诸实施的构想(或计划);渺茫的希望;空口的许诺
The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like pie in the sky.
遭毁坏码头区的真正重建看起来希望渺茫。
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。
SYN a false hope, a fantasy, an illusion, a mirage