Our results should be a good approximation to the true state of affairs.

我们的结果应该和实际情况相当接近。

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It may get even harder to assess the true state of America's poor.

要估算真正的美国贫穷状况就更难。

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One day he is offered priceless information about the true state of the Saudi oil reserves.

一天，他获得一些有关沙特石油油田真实情况的宝贵信息。

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And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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That is simply not true,". In the Republican response, Bob McDonnell, a candidate for governor of the state of Virginia, says his party also wants to fix health insurance.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

France, later this month, will receive a report from its auditors on the true state of French finances.

BBC: Europe's long, uncomfortable summer

It is only privately, in the recesses of Whitehall, that the true state of their relations becomes apparent.

ECONOMIST: A wigging for Lord Irvine

He testified convincingly that he was uncomfortable giving out false information--especially because he knew the true state of affairs.

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