reality [ ri'æliti] n.现实；真实
reality [ri'æliti] n. 现实, 事实, 本体
摆花架子 a metaphor for presenting an attractive facade but in reality lacking substance
基本国情 fundamental realities of the country
VR Virtual Reality 虚拟现实
VR （Virtual Reality）：虚拟实境。
虚拟现实 virtual reality
虚拟现实 virtual reality
虚拟现实 virtual reality
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
旅行的价值在于用显示校正想象，目睹事物的本来面目，而非臆想它们可能如何。
virtual reality
虚拟现实
I am not content with beautiful dreams: I want beautiful realities.
我不满足于美丽的梦想, 我要的是美丽的现实。
We had hoped that things would get easy but the reality was very different.
我曾希望事情会变得容易些，可现实却截然不同。
What he described exists only in imagination but not in reality.
他所描绘的只是想象，而不是现实。
Language not only depends on its culture, but in turn structures reality for this culture.
语言不仅依赖其文化，而且反过来为这文化构建现实。
Language not only depends on its culture, but in turn structures reality for this culture.
语言不仅依赖其文化，而且还反过来为这文化构建现实。
Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.
想像有时比现实生动得多。
Between the ideal and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Falls the shadow.
Thomas stearns Eliot,
British Poet and critic
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。
英国诗人、批评家爱略特，T，S。
In reality killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which time kills us.
O,S itwell British writer
实际上，消磨时间只是时间用以消磨我们五花八门的方式的又一种方式而已。
英国作家西特韦尔.O.
I believe that fame and celebrity, influence and power, success and failure, reality and illusion are all somehow neatly woven into a seamless fabric we laughingly call reality.
Howards Melvin, American essayist
我相信声誉和名声、影响和权力、成功和失败、现实和幻想都好像是精心纺织在一匹光洁无缝的织品之中，即我们笑称之为现实的东西。
美国散文家麦尔文.H.
Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness in the midst of the crowd. We yearn for the comfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality.
Howards Mel, USA writer
说谎掩盖了人死的必然性、缺陷、恐惧、焦虑和在熙熙攘攘的人群中所感到的孤独。耳熟能详的谎言会创造一个较易应付的现实。人渴望从这些谎言中得到安慰。
美国作家梅尔.H.
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
Thomas Fuller, American inventor
使人高兴的或者沮丧的，与其说是事实，还不如说是攀比。
美国发明家富勒T
@@@ 其实
as a matter of fact 事实上, 其实
as it is 实际上; 其实是
for that matter 其实(用以指出所说的两件事中, 后说的与先说的性质一样)
in effect 事实上, 实际上
in fact 其实, 实际上
in reality 实际上, 事实上
本体 noumenon; reality
闭门造车 [bì mén zào chē] /make a cart behind closed doors/work behind closed doors/divorce oneself from the masses and from reality and act blindly/
闭目塞听 [bì mù sè tīng] /shuts one's eyes and stop up one's ears - be out of touch with reality/
不见棺材不落泪 [bù jiàn guān cái bù luò lèi] /not shed a tear until one sees the coffin - refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality/
名副其实 [míng fù qí shí] /not just in name only, but also in reality/
实际 [shí jì] /actual/reality/practice/
实际上 [shí jì shàng] /in fact/in reality/as a matter of fact/in practice/
实在 [shí zài] /in reality/honestly/really/verily/concrete/
现实 [xiàn shí] /reality/actuality/real/actual/
省悟 [xǐng wù] /come to oneself/come to realize/come to see the truth/wake up to reality/
醒悟 [xǐng wù] /come to oneself/come to realize/come to see the truth/wake up to reality/
But not even a great health-care system can cure death — and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.
但是即使有一个伟大的医疗卫生体系，死亡也是无法战胜的——而我们不能面对这个现实，正危及我们自身的伟大。
Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.
奇怪的是，大约两年半的时间我写完两部小说后，我这个被美国人称为“放慢生活节奏”的试验，却使我老掉牙的借口变成了现实。
I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "have it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of she magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
我已从一个“获得一切”哲学（琳达·凯茜过去七年中在《她》这本杂志所宣扬的）的狂热支持者，变成了一个乐于接受任何东西只要一丁点的女人。
The harsh realities of the frontier also shaped this tradition of hospitality.
开拓者的严酷生活现实也促成了这一好客的传统。
{adj: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective} not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
"a large abstract painting"
{adj: actual} taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated
"we saw the actual wedding on television"
"filmed the actual beating"
{adj: alert, alive, awake} (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive
"alert to the problems"
"alive to what is going on"
"awake to the dangers of her situation"
"was now awake to the reality of his predicament"
{adj: blunt, crude, stark} devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
"the blunt truth"
"the crude facts"
"facing the stark reality of the deadline"
{adj: convertible, transformable, translatable, transmutable} capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
"is lead really transmutable into gold?"
"ideas translatable into reality"
{adj: delusive, false} inappropriate to reality or facts
"delusive faith in a wonder drug"
"delusive expectations"
"false hopes"
{adj: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted} having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
"many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"
"a perverted translation of the poem"
{adj: experiential} relating to or resulting from experience
"a personal, experiential reality"
{adj: extroversive, extraversive} directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality
<-> ambiversive, introversive
{adj: eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil} creating the illusion of seeing reality
"the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"
{adj: false} not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
"gave false testimony under oath"
"false tales of bravery"
<-> true
{adj: ideal, idealistic} of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
{adj: intangible, nonphysical} lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
"that intangible thing--the soul"
{adj: outer} located outside
"outer reality"
{adj: outward} relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind
"a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"
<-> inward
{adj: phantom} something apparently sensed but having no physical reality
"seemed to hear faint phantom bells"
"the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"
{adj: substantial, substantive} having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable; "substantial equivalents"
{adj: transcendent} beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
"philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston
"the unknowable mysteries of life"
{adj: true} consistent with fact or reality; not false
"the story is true"
"it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell
"the true meaning of the statement"
<-> false
{adj: unreal} lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
"ghosts and other unreal entities"
"unreal propaganda serving as news"
<-> real
{adj: veridical, real} coinciding with reality
"perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson
{adj: virtual} existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact
"a virtual dependence on charity"
"a virtual revolution"
"virtual reality"
{adv: actually, in reality} used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly
"you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out"
"she actually spoke Latin"
"they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets"
"people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous"
{adv: at heart, at bottom, deep down, inside, in spite of appearance} in reality
"she is very kind at heart"
{adv: de facto} in reality or fact
"the result was, de facto, a one-party system"
{adv: effectively, in effect} in actuality or reality or fact
"she is effectively his wife"
"in effect, they had no choice"
{adv: eventually, yet, sooner or later, in time, one of these days} within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
"he will understand eventually"
"he longed for the flowers that were yet to show themselves"
"sooner or later you will have to face the facts"
"in time they came to accept the harsh reality"
{adv: furthest, farthest} to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense)
"went the furthest of all the children in her education"
"furthest removed from reality"
"she goes farthest in helping us"
{adv: in fact, in point of fact, as a matter of fact} in reality or actuality
"in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived"
"painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated"
"as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father"
{adv: truly, genuinely, really} in accordance with truth or fact or reality
"she was now truly American"
"a genuinely open society"
"they don't really listen to us"
{n: Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, BMDO} an agency in the Department of Defense that is responsible for making ballistic missile defense a reality
{n: Darsana} (from the Sanskrit word for `to see') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on the nature of reality and the release from bondage to karma
{n: Neoplatonism} a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable
"Neoplatonism was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century"
"Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy"
{n: Parmenides} a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy; held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed; said that motion and change are sensory illusions (5th century BC)
{n: Robbins, Jerome Robbins} United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998)
{n: accommodation} in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
{n: anthropocentrism, anthropocentricity} an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values
{n: cloud-cuckoo-land} an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
{n: cloud} out of touch with reality
"his head was in the clouds"
{n: depersonalization, depersonalisation, depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis} emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
{n: dream, dreaming} imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
"he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
{n: dream} a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
"he went about his work as if in a dream"
{n: dualism} the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
{n: escape mechanism} a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities
{n: escape, escapism} an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
"romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"
"his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
{n: expressionism} an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
{n: extrovert, extravert} (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings
<-> introvert
{n: fantasy world, phantasy world, fairyland} something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
{n: fantasy, phantasy} imagination unrestricted by reality
"a schoolgirl fantasy"
{n: hypostasis} (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
{n: idealism} (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
{n: inspiration, brainchild} a product of your creative thinking and work
"he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"
"after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"
{n: insubstantiality} lacking substance or reality
<-> substantiality
{n: materialism, physicalism} (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
{n: materialization, materialisation} the process of coming into being; becoming reality
"the materialization of her dream"
{n: mentalism} (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
{n: monism} the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element
<-> pluralism
{n: mystic, religious mystic} someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension
{n: mysticism, religious mysticism} a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
{n: ostrich} a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
{n: otherworld} an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality
{n: paramnesia} (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
{n: phenomenology} a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account
{n: pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle} (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
<-> reality principle
{n: pluralism} the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
<-> monism
{n: posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD} an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
{n: psychosis} any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
{n: psychotic depression} a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments
<-> neurotic depression
{n: reality check} an occasion on which one is reminded of the nature of things in the real world
"this program is intended as a reality check for CEOs"
"after all those elaborate productions, I felt in need of a reality check"
{n: reality principle} (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it
<-> pleasure principle
{n: reality, realness, realism} the state of being actual or real
"the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"
<-> unreality
{n: reality} the quality possessed by something that is real
<-> unreality
{n: reality} the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be
"businessmen have to face harsh realities"
{n: realization, realisation, actualization, actualisation} making real or giving the appearance of reality
{n: regression} (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
{n: schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox} any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
{n: sight} an instance of visual perception
"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"
"the train was an unexpected sight"
{n: sooth} truth or reality
"in sooth"
{n: space cadet} someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug)
{n: springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure} a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
"he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"
"reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"
"the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"
{n: subsistence} the state of existing in reality; having substance
{n: trompe l'oeil} a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality
{n: truth, the true, verity, trueness} conformity to reality or actuality
"they debated the truth of the proposition"
"the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"
"he was famous for the truth of his portraits"
"he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"
<-> falsity
{n: unreality, irreality} the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
<-> reality
{n: unreality} the quality possessed by something that is unreal
<-> reality
{n: value judgment, value judgement} an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed
{n: virtual reality} a hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer; user wears special goggles and fiber optic gloves etc., and can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it
{n: world, reality} all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
"his world was shattered"
"we live in different worlds"
"for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
{v: admit, acknowledge} declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
"He admitted his errors"
"She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
<-> deny
{v: disembody} free from a body or physical form or reality
{v: exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify} make external or objective, or give reality to
"language externalizes our thoughts"
{v: happen, materialize, materialise} come into being ; become reality
"Her dream really materialized"
<-> dematerialise, dematerialize
{v: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate} make real or concrete ; give reality or substance to
"our ideas must be substantiated into actions"
{v: sugarcoat} cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
"The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"
We do believe that South Africa's transition, hailed by many as a miracle, though in reality it was based on the actions of humans, has had a great importance in demonstration what is possible when the will and the conditions for peace are there.
我们相信，南非的转变（它被很多人称之为奇迹，实际上是基于人的行动）很重要地用实例表明了，只要存在促和平的意志和条件，什么都可以做到。
Don't engage in a personal coverup of areas that are unpleasing in your life.
不要设法掩盖你生活中令人不快的方方面面。
In other words, face reality and be adult in your responses to life's challenges.
换言之，要正视现实。面对生活的挑战，要老成持重，应付有方。
There's been a mix-up in the scheduling of this interview with Spake, star of British television reality series Airport.
对英国电视纪录系列片《机场》的主角斯佩克的这次采访安排得有点混乱。
" The key premise of this book is that the principles governing the world of the soft--the world of intangibles, of media, of software, and of services--will soon command the world of the hard--the world of reality, of atoms, of objects, of steel and oil, and the hard work done by the sweat of brows, " Kelly writes.
凯利写道： "本书的主要前提就是主宰软世界－即无形物、媒体、软件和服务的世界－的准则不久将领导硬世界－即现实、原子、物体、钢铁与石油的世界和要靠拼命工作完成的艰苦劳动。 "
Both The Thinker and The Kiss are close to the reality of flesh and blood.
《思想者》和《吻》都非常接近真实的生命。
We instinctively don't wish to call them " statues ".
我们直觉上不想把它们称作 "雕像 "。
The Kiss ended as a big sculpture.
《吻》是一座巨大的雕塑，
We are desperate to find out news of home. In reality we want to gloat, I mean share, this experience.
我们急切地盼望得到家中消息，但实际上也是想炫示炫示，我指的是想让他们分享我们此刻的感受。
This vision moved closer to reality last year with the launch of a debit card which will allow consumers to convert beenz for local currency - spendable in real or online stores.
去年，查尔斯·科恩的这种理想离现实又近了一步。 Beenz.com 将发行借记卡，使用这种借记卡，消费者可以将 beenz 兑换成能在传统意义上的商店或网上商店使用的当地货币。
What's best about this movie is that it plays our odd behavior as normal reality.
这部影片让片中人物以他们痴狂的方式生活（间或死去），丝毫不加雕凿，完全不受优越感或放纵的傲慢态度的影响。
Nurse Betty's a wacky but wonderful dose of reality.
《护士贝蒂》是一部关于现实荒诞但却美妙的影片。
But he hopes employers will begin to consider the realities of burnout.
不过，他希望雇主们能够考虑解决员工超负荷工作问题。
They will be programmable, in that they will be able to provide virtual reality one minute and a variety of brain extensions the next.
它们还将具有可编程性，因此它们能够一会儿提供虚拟现实，一会儿又作为一系列大脑的伸展。
By 2030, " going to a website " will mean entering a virtual-reality environment.
到 2030年，上将意味味进入一个虚拟现实环境。
This technology will enable us to have virtual-reality experiences with other people or simulated people without requiring any equipment not already in our heads.
这一技术将使我们能够与其他人（或者模拟的人）一起进行虚拟现实的体验，而无须我们头脑中事先有任何设备。
Further, this virtual reality will be as realistic and detailed as real reality.
不仅如此，这种虚拟现实将与现实一样真实而精细。
The business reality has turned out to be quite different.
然而，商界的实际发展情况大大出乎它们的意料。
He is also the first reality-based fashionista, who pays as much attention to manufacturing costs as to designer trends.
他既关心生产成本，又注重设计趋势。
To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality.
对整个世界来说，相对论似乎突然打乱了人类观察到的现实世界。
Real E-Motion U.S. firm MotionWare has developed a virtual reality device that creates the actual sensation of movement.
真实的电子动感一家名为 MotionWare 的美国公司开发了一能够创造出真实动感的虚拟现实装置。
The stars inside actually twinkle, thanks to the Hayden's one-of-a-kind Zeiss Mark IX projector, which reveals constellations with 3-D reality.
那里的行星真的在闪烁，这是因为海登天文馆采用了一蔡司 MarkIX 型放映，利用三维立技术向参观者展示各个星系。
The grim reality of what had been created by the world's finest scientific minds could easily have predisposed the nation to abhor science and technology.
是世界科学精英的研制品导致了这一残酷的现实。本来这个国家会因此而痛恨科学技术。
But constrained by economic reality, these therapeutic advances will have only limited benefit outside the U.S. and Western Europe.
但是受经济现状的制约，这些治疗上的进展在美国和西欧以外的区域将只能产生有限的效益。
Also close to reality are the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds that inhibit the growth of new capillaries.
所谓抗淋巴因子也指日可待，这是一种相对无毒的化合物，可以阻止新的毛细血管生长。
A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower.
一种从不曾得以实现的揭示现实的欲望，很有可能会突如其来地让位于另一种欲望，这就是一个我们可不妨将其视作小说家兼科学家的那种欲望，去精确无误地和具体地记录一朵花的结构和构造特征。
He also uses accounts of ex-slaves to probe the human reality behind his statistics.
他还采用前奴隶们（exslaves）的描述来探索其数据背后所隐含的人类现实。
Since science tries to deal with reality, even the most precise sciences normally work with more or less imperfectly understood approximations toward which scientists must maintain an appropriate skepticism.
由于科学所处理的是现实，因而，即使是最为精确的科学门类一般而言在进行研究时都会带有一些或多或少未被透彻理解的近似值，而科学家针对这些近似值必须保持一种恰如其分的怀疑。
American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement—utopian socialism—which was already popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades that culminated in the first women's rights conference held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
有些美国女权主义活动家被描述成“离群索居的”和“单枪匹马的理论家”，她们实际上与某项运动——即乌托邦社会主义（utopian socialism）密切相联，而该项运动早就在此际的二十年当中在欧洲普及女权主义思想，并以于1848年在纽约Seneca Falls召开的第一届女权大会而臻顶点。
In recent years critics have said the G-7 no longer reflects the reality of the global economy, and have advocated its expansion or reform to account for the rise of new economic powerhouses.
近年来，批评者说，七国集团已经无法反映全球经济的现实，并且主张七国集团应该进行扩大或改造，反映新兴经济国家的崛起。
"It's the worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking [second-guessing]. It is especially shameful in the light of a new tape from America's enemy," the president said. "Our commander in Afghanistan, Tommy Franks, recently said the Senator's understanding of events does not square with reality."
他说，“这是星期一早晨最糟糕的批评。尤其可耻的是根据美国的敌人的一卷新录像带下断言。我们在阿富汗的总司令汤米·弗兰克最近说克里参议员对于事件的理解与现实不符。”
virtual reality 虚拟现实
virtual reality design, VRD 虚拟现实设计
virtual reality technology, VRT 虚拟现实技术
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