Reality
[rɪ'ælɪtɪ] or [rɪ'æləti]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
校對:梅雷迪思--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
(n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
(n.) Loyalty; devotion.
(n.) See 2d Realty, 2.
整理:怀亚特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Truth, verity, actuality, fact, actual existence, matter of fact.[2]. (Law.) Realty, immobility.
伊莱錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Verity, substance, truth, existence, genuineness, substantiality
ANT:Fiction, falsehood, untruth, hypothesis, supposition, image, fancy, shadow,figment, fabrication, insubstantiality, emptiness, hollowness, chimera,unreality
布伦特校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
巴里整理
例句/造句/用法:
- But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- In reality, however, it is the goods which are cheap in the one case, and dear in the other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- At present we know nothing of them, and are not in a situation to judge how much reality there may be in them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- In reality I wanted to see him. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The reality of feudalism was its voluntary co-operation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The passenger would then start to himself, and lower the window, to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was a strange reality of his being, the very stuff of being, there in the straight downflow of the thighs. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Such people were not realities to the little figure of the English girl; such people were all unknown to her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Daily conversation was shocked into some contact with realities--the newspapers actually printed facts about the situation of a working class population. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I don't know what you mean by realities. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- To quit crude schoolgirl fancies, and come to realities. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His _Tableau des vices de la constitution d'Angleterre_ showed the realities of the English position. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
整理:昆廷