It's a persistent problem partly because it always raises these issues of fictionality versus truthfulness, of honesty versus embellishment.

这是个持久的问题,原因是它一直在质疑虚构性和真实性的关系，还有诚实与修饰的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's just a video game, it's a game. I understand that it's not real.

这只是个游戏，它是游戏。我明白它不是真实的。

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I should just say that the data i just gave you is real data but it's actually mixed ability data.

我强调一点我给你们的数据是真实数据,但是它是综合了各种能力后的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And many people rightfully so questioned the veracity, the value of these questionnaires, because it is subjective-- ? are we measuring something real?

很多人置疑问卷的，真实性和价值，因为它是主观的-,我们是在测量真实的东西吗？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The argument is not saying, "If something is possible, if I can imagine it, it's true."

这个论证并不是在说,如果某件事是可能的,如果我能想象它,那它就是真实的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And also, discuss the debate over whether such cases are true or not; whether they could be taken as a real phenomena or a made-up phenomena, which is--there is a matter of a lot of controversy.

同时也讨论一下,这种现象是否真实存在,我们应该将它看作是真实的心理现象,还是人们主观想象出来的,这个问题存在着许多的争论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It doesn't have to be a real container to contain it It's just an imaginary boundary there.

它不必是,一个真实的容器,只是一个想象的边界。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It can be a rhetorical question or a real question.

它可以是修辞意义上的问句，也可以是一个真实的问题。

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