As an alternative to this impotent "realism," I'd like to propose a clear-eyed idealism, which recognizes that these are bad times but refuses to accept that the bad times are inevitable.

为了取代这样一个令人无助的“现实”，我更愿意提出一种保持洞察力的理想主义，就是说认识到这些是坏的时候，但拒绝接受坏的命运是不可避免的。

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He is teaching a kind of, we will find out, a kind of hard-headed realism Polemarchus that expresses disgust at Polemarchus' talk about loyalty and friendship and the like.

他教授一种，我们稍后会发现，一种冷静的现实主义，表达出对，忠诚与友谊之类谈话的厌恶。

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LM: Does magical realism describe the dream-like realities created in your stories?

魔幻现实主义有没有描述过在你故事中所创造的梦一般的现实？

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He is teaching a kind of, we will find out, a kind of hard-headed realism Polemarchus that expresses disgust at Polemarchus' talk about loyalty and friendship and the like.

他教授一种，我们稍后会发现，一种冷静的现实主义,表达出对,忠诚与友谊之类谈话的厌恶。

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