"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

And so when you actually have a device the bits don't flow at the speed of light in reality.

因此，当你拥有一个设备,数据位并不能以现实中的光速传输。

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In reality, he was just happy working on a ranch and making a dollar a day.

实际上，只要能在农场工作，每天赚一美元，他就会很开心。

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Writer-director Christopher Nolan launched his career with Memento and Insomnia, mysteries that delve into how reality can be in the mind of the beholder.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The points of view, again, are those of the sacred and profane, the soul and the body, the promise of a heavenly mansion, and the reality of a life lived in a foul sty.

这里表达的观点又是关于,神圣与世俗，灵魂与身体，关于住进天国的大厦的许诺，和生活在臭猪圈的现实。

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He says changing the constitution to allow retired soldiers to run in June elections better reflects what he calls Mauritania's "new political and cultural reality."

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

It rankles, but on the other hand, these regulations survive because the reality is that people are victimized all the time and we can't just allow companies to act in secrecy.

这让人不爽,但是从另一个角度,金融监管制度之所以长期存在,是因为现实中,大众一直都是牺牲品,我们不能任由那些公司在幕后操纵

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But South Korean,Japanese,and U.S. officials are skeptical about the North's plan and suspect the so-called satellite launch is in reality a way to test a long-range rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

But what of it? Think as long as you can though the artist throw out the negativism in reality by means of his art. And so he ends up with this very optimistic point of view.

但这有什么关系呢？，好好地想一想,尽管这个艺术家在现实中通过艺术,驱逐了消极主义,因此他最终形成了这种乐观的观点。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He said they are making charges with no basis in reality, and,in so doing,are endangering the reputation of the men and women trying to keep the country safe.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

And the key is to be true to reality, which is also one of the main themes in the course.

重要的是要真实面对现实，这也是本门课的重要主题之一。

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It is the kind of drama one expects to see on reality TV shows, and here it is creeping into politics in a way that certainly has excited people."

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

So, let's look at this in a more simple structure here where we have the two possible forms of benzene, and the reality is is that it's going to be some combination of the two.

让我们从一个更简单的结构,来看看这两种可能的苯环构型，实际情况,是这两个的组合。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But Spokesman Robert Gibbs says he will also talk about the reality of being a Nobel peace laureate who is leading a nation at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

So in reality, we need to take into account a little bit more, and in particular, we need to take into account the abilities of players to hit the ball accurately and/or hard.

所以分析实际情况时要深思熟虑,比如说,我们需要把罚球队员的,射门力度跟精准度考虑在内

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"So there's a big question mark,". "Who is responsible for such a heavy increase of production and export of the narcotics, because all of the areas where this cultivation is underway are controlled by NATO forces in one way or other?" Akhonzadeh said this reality cannot be ignored and called for new ideas,strategies and methods to tackle the problems of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

And that's what he did. And for the point of view of France, they emerged from the war with the reality that they are in victory a weaker nation than Germany is in defeat.

他就是这么干的,从法国这边来看,他们在战后的现实中发现,他们作为一个战胜国,比德国一个战败国还要弱小

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Frost is also here specifically writing against the early poetry of Yeats, which you'll read next week, poetry that finds reality exactly in "dream," and that has plenty of fairies and elves in it.

这里弗罗斯特也特别的与叶芝的早期诗歌不同，你们下周会读到叶芝的，他的诗歌在梦中找到现实“,里面有一些小精灵。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So I'm really just interested in how filmmakers make films for what motive they have in common, why they make them and how they choose to present reality.

所以我对电影制作者们,在制作电影时有没有什么共同的动机,他们为什么要制作电影，如何用电影反映现实,等方面很感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And we know how easy it is to miss part of reality, even they are right in front of our very eyes.

我们知道无视一部分现实是多么容易，就算他们就在我们眼前。

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