1·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。
2·But this is a distant prospect.
但是这仅仅是一个遥远的前景。
3·Security is an even more distant prospect.
安全是一个更为遥远的愿景。
4·That, thankfully, is still a distant prospect.
谢天谢地，那还是一个远景。
5·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。
6·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。
7·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。
8·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。
9·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。
10·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。