Television deludes you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven't.

电视诱使你相信你体验到了你实际上并没有体验过的真情实景。

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My thinking always lags behind reality.

我的思想老落后于现实。

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Kvit adds that most contemporary Ukrainian politicians are heavily influenced by Soviet-style thinking, but even they understand the reality of free speech in Ukraine, which remains despite changes in government.

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You know, like, we can't possibly create the physical reality of what we're thinking

就好像我们不能一有某种想法，

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"The euro was a victory of political romanticism over economic thinking and reality, " Mr. Bolkestein says.

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Can you see how archetypal thinking obscures reality so that actuality is shaped into mythical fantasy?

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Speaking in The Sun newspaper in February, Goody admitted that she was doing it for the money, but claimed she was thinking beyond the reality career that would die with her.

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