A 2008 spike in oil prices changed that, prompting a shift towards smaller cars, yet still an electric "revolution" on the roads remains a distant prospect.

2008年的油价飙升改变了那一状况，促使人们转向小型汽车，但道路上的电动“革命”仍是一个遥远的前景。

But this is a distant prospect.

但是这仅仅是一个遥远的前景。

Security is an even more distant prospect.

安全是一个更为遥远的愿景。

That, thankfully, is still a distant prospect.

谢天谢地，那还是一个远景。

But this happy (for him) outcome seems a distant prospect.

但是这个(对他而言)快乐的结果似乎是一个遥远的前景。

And NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia is a distant prospect.

而乌克兰与格鲁吉亚加入北约尚是渺不可期之事。

France has so little practice at fiscal retrenchment that a 3% deficit seems a distant prospect.

法国在财政紧缩方面几乎没什么经验可循，以至于3%的赤字目标也只能是一个遥远的期盼。

Alternatively, "unlimited" intervention could eventually provoke inflation, although that still looks a distant prospect.

“无限量”干预将最终引起通胀，尽管看起来还只是遥远的预期。

Despite growing interest in their troubles, that seems a distant prospect for those languishing on the edge of the working world.

尽管对失业问题的关注逐渐增加，但对那些在劳动力市场饱受煎熬的失业者来说，似乎重返就业的希望还很遥远。

That may seem a distant prospect today, but there already is a wide disparity in the public finances of individual member states.

虽然今天看来这种局面似乎还很遥远，但欧元区各成员国的公共财政状况目前已经存在巨大差距。

Recovery seems a distant prospect, not least because during Spain's long boom production costs rose far faster than they did across the euro area as a whole.

复苏似乎还是件遥远的事，特别是在西班牙的长期经济繁荣时期，其生产成本上升的速度远比整个欧元区要快。

Such reprocessing-or even fast-neutron reactors that don't use water to moderate fission and can potentially create more fuel than they consume-remain a distant prospect.

这种再处理工艺，或甚至快速中子反应堆不使用水来缓和裂变，及比他们消耗量创造更多的燃料，仍是一个遥远的前景。

It is also conceivable that they could be points of intervention by modifications in environmental factors or eventually in pharmaceutical products; but this is a distant prospect.

它们在环境问题上和最终的医药产品上可以成为修饰的介入点，这也是可想而知的。但是这仅仅是一个遥远的前景。

With sales of new homes hitting a six-month low in August, after falling for the fourth time in as many months, a robust recovery in the housing market remains a distant prospect.

新房成交量在数月四次下降后，8月份达到六月以来最低。 房地产市场强劲的复苏仍是一个遥远的憧憬。

The prospect of a negotiated settlement still seems distant despite Monday's tentative progress.

尽管 周一有了些许进展，但通过谈判解决争端的前景似乎仍十分渺茫。

The European Union would also do these countries a huge favour if it were willing to hold out the prospect, however distant, of their becoming members.

欧盟也会给这些国家很大的优惠，无论距离多远都允许他们加入。

With optical communications embedded into the processor chips, the prospect of building power-efficient computer systems with performance at the Exaflop level might not be a very distant future.

通过嵌入处理器芯片的光通信，建立Exaflop(1018次，是千万亿次petaflop的1000倍)级水平的高效能计算机系统的愿景将在不太遥远的未来实现。

However language experts believe the prospect of such technology supplanting the ability to speak a foreign tongue is a distant one.

然而语言专家认为，这一技术要想取代学习使用外语的能力还为时尚早。

That prospect, always distant, has now receded further.

这种本就遥远的前景现在更是遥不可及。

And some people simply fear the prospect off repatriating to a home country from which they may have grown distant.

有人不愿回国仅仅是对回国后的前途没有信心，因为他们已经与故国很疏远了。

Outbound individual tourism - booming in recent years - was still a prospect for the distant future at that time.

近年火爆的个人出境游在当时仍是一个对遥远未来的期望。

The prospect of a reliable human longevity pill is still distant.

寿命的有效药物仍然是个遥不可及的挑战。

Thee findings shed light on what goes awry to make distant objects look blurred, and raises the prospect of developing drugs to prevent the condition.

这项发现有助于阐明近视的成因，并为研发预防近视的药物带来了希望。