We do not always want a faithful representation of reality. Sometimes we yearn for a dream.

我们并不总是需要现实的真实展现，有的时候我们需要的是一个梦。

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This model is never an exact representation of reality, since modeling errors are inevitable.

模型不是一个准确的实体表现，模型的误差是不可避免的。

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Doris Lessing reflects upon and explores the relation between representation of reality and novel forms in the book.

多丽丝·莱辛在该小说中对当代小说形式与现实表征之间的关系作了深入地思考与大胆地探索。

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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I've just sent a reply to von Storch as he claims his model is a better representation of reality than MBH.

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It was even felt by artists who, like Pierre Bonnard and Fairfield Porter, never produced an abstract painting in their lives, but were nonetheless influenced by the way in which practitioners of abstraction created what Mr. Diebenkorn called "invented landscapes, " nonobjective images that evoked the world of tangible reality while steering clear of literal representation.

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It would be great to have an MBA class with a strong representation of people from the arts and humanities, but the reality is that an MBA student needs to be highly numerate.

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