But Barack Obama warns that without decisive action, trillion-dollar deficits will be a reality for years to come.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

It's a very different kind of crafting, but yet it does replace reality in a similar way, or it makes demands on reality that push the real back.

是一种很不一样的工艺，却以同样的方式代替了现实，或者对现实提出要求。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The state was an abstraction, but in the person of the czar it was a reality.

国家" 只是个抽象概念,但沙皇这个人是真实存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

You'll be kept in prison for a long time.'" But in reality,there is help.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

That's what it is: "It does not refer to reality, but to a dream."

的确就是如此：“这和现实没有关系，只是梦幻“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Child rights campaigners have hailed the act, but they also point out that many challenges lie ahead in turning the legal right into a reality.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

And that's somewhat inconvenient because we're working with wave functions, but it's a reality that comes out of quantum mechanics often, which is that we're describing a world that is so much different from the world that we observe on a day-to-day basis, that we're not always going to be able to make those one-to-one analogies.

这对于研究氢原子，很不方便,但这就是事实,而且在量子力学中经常会出现这种事实,那就是我们要描述的世界，和我们日常所看到的世界,之间的差别是如此之大,以至于我们不能，做出一一对应的类比,但幸运的是我们不用管。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But spokesmanRobert Gibbs says the president also will talk about the reality of being a Nobel peace laureate who is leading a nation at war.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Ensalaco says the recent arrests reinforce the reality that human trafficking is not just an international problem, but also a local one affecting every community in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

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