actuality
actuality 英 [ˌæktʃuˈæləti] 美 [ˌæktʃuˈælɪti]
n. 现状；现实；事实
名词复数:actualities
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- n. 现状；现实；事实
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1. The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in photographs.
这栋大楼外观雄伟，与照片中所见一模一样。
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2. the grim actualities of prison life
严酷的监狱生活现实
- actuality (n.) late 14c., "power, efficacy," from Medieval Latin actualitatem (nominative actualitas), from Late Latin actualis "pertaining to action," from Latin actus "a doing" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). A Latin loan-translation of Greek energeia "activity, action, operation" (see energy). Meaning "state of being real" is from 1670s (actualities "existing conditions" is from 1660s).
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