Reality

(noun.) the quality possessed by something that is real.

(noun.) the state of being actual or real; 'the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him'.

(noun.) the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; 'businessmen have to face harsh realities'.

校对:梅雷迪思

• But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• In reality, however, it is the goods which are cheap in the one case, and dear in the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• At present we know nothing of them, and are not in a situation to judge how much reality there may be in them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• These ascetics were all supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In reality I wanted to see him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The reality of feudalism was its voluntary co-operation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The passenger would then start to himself, and lower the window, to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The reality that is worthy of attention is a change in the very texture and quality of millions of lives--a change that will be vividly perceptible only in the retrospect of history. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was a strange reality of his being, the very stuff of being, there in the straight downflow of the thighs. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Such people were not realities to the little figure of the English girl; such people were all unknown to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Daily conversation was shocked into some contact with realities--the newspapers actually printed facts about the situation of a working class population. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I don't know what you mean by realities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• They will help us to understand better the astonishing irrelevance of the political life of this period to the realities that rose about it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• To quit crude schoolgirl fancies, and come to realities. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His _Tableau des vices de la constitution d'Angleterre_ showed the realities of the English position. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

整理:昆廷