六级Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

几年前，当我的祖父母快80多岁的时候，他们面临着无法充分照顾自己的现实。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

然而，艾伦认为，潜意识产生的行动与意识产生的行动一样多，虽然我们可能能够通过意识维持控制幻觉，但实际上我们不断面临一个问题：“为什么我不能让自己做这件事或实现那件事？”因为欲望和意志会受到艾伦总结道：“我们吸引的不是我们想要的，而是我们自己。”。

2011年考研翻译原文

考研Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.

要求拆除毛纳基亚所有望远镜或禁止未来发展的呼声忽视了一个现实，即天文学和夏威夷文化都试图回答关于我们是谁、我们来自哪里以及我们要去哪里的重大问题。

2017年考研阅读原文

六级It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.

这是一个严峻的现实，你可以有一个人每年只赚13000美元左右，而在整个城市另一个人却赚了数百万美元。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级But till now, they've been something like a mirage（幻影）in the distance, more like a hazy（模糊的）dream than an actual reality.

但到现在为止，它们就像海市蜃楼(幻影）在远处，更像是一片朦胧(模糊的）梦想比现实更重要。

2013年6月阅读原文

高考Serious readers will both get excited over what happens in some news stories and adapt themselves to the reality.

严肃的读者既会对一些新闻故事中发生的事情感到兴奋，也会适应现实。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

高考When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work.

当读者选择延迟的奖励新闻时，他会将自己拉入周围现实的世界中，只有努力工作才能使自己适应这个世界。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

考研Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.

从根本上说，美国邮政正处于一个历史性的两难境地：技术变革永久性地降低了对其面包和黄油产品、一流邮件的需求，监管结构剥夺了管理层根据新现实调整其运营的灵活性。

2018年考研阅读原文

六级During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama assembled a racially and ideologically diverse coalition with his message of hope and change; as the reality of life under a new administration settles in, some of those supporters might become disillusioned.

在总统竞选期间，巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）以其希望和变革的信息组建了一个种族和意识形态多元化的联盟；随着新政府的现实生活逐渐安定下来，其中一些支持者可能会大失所望。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级The 28 existence of such ideals, without the tempering of the reality of a job or profession, rapidly leads adolescents to become 29 intolerant of the non-idealistic world and to press for reform in a characteristically adolescent way.

这种理想的存在，没有改变工作或职业的现实，很快导致青少年对非理想世界产生不容忍，并以典型的青少年方式推动改革。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

而事实是，自从70年前青霉素（最早的抗生素之一）首次在临床上使用以来，抗生素就已经拯救了数百万人的生命。

2017年6月听力原文

考研Too often we believe that, a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels.

我们常常相信，一份新工作、更大的房子或更好的汽车将是让我们最终满足的灵丹妙药，但现实是，这些东西对我们的幸福水平几乎没有持久的影响。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考But Mann thinks Terrafugia has come closer than anyone to making the flying car a reality.

但是曼恩认为Terrafugia比任何人都更接近于让飞行汽车成为现实。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Mr Jobs was said by an engineer in the early years of Apple to emit a "reality distortion （扭曲）field", such were his powers of persuasion.

苹果公司早期的一位工程师曾说，乔布斯发出了一种“现实扭曲”的声音(扭曲）这就是他的说服力。

2012年12月阅读原文

高考However, the 1995 pop song 'common people' puts forward the view that though a middle-class person may 'want to live like common people' they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

然而，1995年流行歌曲《普通人》提出的观点是，尽管中产阶级可能“想像普通人一样生活”，但他们永远无法欣赏工人阶级生活的现实。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public.

另一方面，维珍银河（Virgin Galactic）等公司正在策划一场自下而上的太空之梦，让它成为现实。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级My colleagues and I are studying something called augmented reality (a field of computer research dealing with the combination of real-world and virtual reality)," said Christopher Dede, professor in learning technologies at Harvard University, "Alien Contact," for example, is an exercise developed for middle-school students who use hand-held devices that can determine their location.

哈佛大学学习技术教授克里斯托弗·德德（Christopher Dede）说：“我和我的同事们正在研究一种叫做增强现实（augmented reality，计算机研究领域，涉及真实世界和虚拟现实的结合），”例如，“外星人接触”，这是一个为中学生开发的练习，他们使用可以确定自己位置的手持设备。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The impact of a basic discovery on human health can be exaggerated so that the public thinks a miraculous cure is a few months to years away when in reality the significance of the study is far more limited.

一项基本发现对人类健康的影响可能被夸大，以至于公众认为奇迹般的治愈方法还需要几个月到几年的时间，而实际上这项研究的意义要有限得多。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级In the 1950s, the plan began to become a reality.

20世纪50年代，该计划开始成为现实。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研The best uses of 3 D printers and virtual reality haven't been invented yet.

3D打印机和虚拟现实的最佳用途尚未发明。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality check.

但今天在网上公布的一项语言特征对比研究提供了一个现实的检验。

2012年考研翻译原文

六级It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones ( ' , 无人机 ), 3D printers, virtual reality goggles ( ' , 眼镜 ) and more smart devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

无人机的展示仍然很容易让人眼花缭乱（'，无人机 ), 3D打印机、虚拟现实护目镜（'，眼镜 ) 还有比你所希望的更多的智能设备。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考One is related to what freud calls the pleasure principle, the other to what he calls the reality principle.

一个与弗洛伊德所说的快乐原则有关，另一个与他所说的现实原则有关。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

六级But the idea that statisticians can then capture an objective reality isn't just impossible.

但统计学家能够捕捉客观现实的想法不仅仅是不可能的。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级Current life structures, career paths, educational choices, and social norms are out of tune with the emerging reality of longer lifespans.

当前的生活结构、职业道路、教育选择和社会规范与长寿这一新兴现实脱节。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones, 3D printers, virtual reality goggles and more "smart" devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

无人驾驶飞机、3D打印机、虚拟现实护目镜和比你所希望的更多的“智能”设备的展示仍然很容易让人眼花缭乱。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考In reality, it's the chair that does the important work.

事实上，是椅子做了重要的工作。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级And we create opportunity for assessment and intervention, to help clients and communities cope effectively with the reality and change that reality when necessary.

我们创造评估和干预的机会，帮助客户和社区有效应对现实，并在必要时改变现实。

2016年12月听力原文

高考Smartphones make it easier and more convenient to check reality, watch video clips, read weibo.

智能手机使人们更容易、更方便地查看现实、观看视频片段、阅读微博。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

六级My colleagues and I are studying something called augmented reality (a field of computer research dealing with the combination of real-world and virtual reality)," said Christopher Dede, professor in learning technologies at Harvard University, "Alien Contact," for example, is an exercise developed for middle-school students who use hand-held devices that can determine their location

哈佛大学学习技术教授克里斯托弗·德德（Christopher Dede）说：“我和我的同事们正在研究一种叫做增强现实（augmented reality，计算机研究领域，涉及真实世界和虚拟现实的结合），”例如，“外星人接触”，是为中学生开发的一个练习，他们使用可以确定自己位置的手持设备

2013年6月阅读原文

四级But the reality is more complicated.

但现实更为复杂。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级But in the end he created a reality of his own, channeling the magic of computing into products that reshaped entire industries.

但最终，他创造了自己的现实，将计算的魔力引导到重塑整个行业的产品中。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级The reality is that Antarctica is geopolitically contested.

事实是，南极洲在地缘政治上存在争议。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考News of delayed reward will induce the reader to prepare for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to withdraw from the reality.

延迟报偿的新闻会促使读者为现实做好准备，而即时报偿的新闻会导致读者从现实中退缩。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

六级So why is there such a discrepancy between the perception of immigrants' impact on the economy and the reality?

那么，为什么移民对经济影响的认知与现实之间存在如此大的差异呢？

2011年6月阅读原文

高考When he selects news of the other kind, he usually withdraws from the world of threatening reality toward the dream world.

当他选择其他类型的新闻时，他通常会从威胁现实的世界中撤退到梦境中。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

六级On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public

另一方面，维珍银河（Virgin Galactic）等公司正在策划一场自下而上的攻击，通过将太空梦想变成现实来实现

2013年12月阅读原文

考研"Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States," he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices.

他在与其他四位法官共同发表的意见中写道：“每年，实体存在规则都会进一步脱离经济现实，给各州带来巨大的收入损失。”。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

六级One of the most significant pieces of news from the US in early 2017 was the efforts of Google to make autonomous driving a reality.

2017年初，美国最重要的新闻之一是谷歌努力实现自动驾驶。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Unfortunately, however, our education system has not caught up to the approaching reality.

然而，不幸的是，我们的教育制度没有跟上日益逼近的现实。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite universities on a full ride scholarship and don't even realize it.

现实情况是，很多低收入的孩子可能会拿着全额奖学金进入精英大学，但他们甚至没有意识到这一点。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Collectively, we rely on the unemployment figures and other statistics to frame our sense of reality.

总体而言，我们依靠失业数字和其他统计数据来构建我们的现实感。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级“The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite universities on a full ride scholarship and don5t even realize it.

“事实是，许多低收入的孩子可能会凭借全额奖学金进入精英大学，但他们甚至没有意识到这一点。

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题（一）

六级“The reality is that Antarctica is geopolitically contested.

“现实情况是，南极洲在地缘政治上存在争议。

2016年12月六级（第二套）真题

六级“This is a much-needed reality check.

“这是一个急需的现实检验。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group.

从生物学角度来看，现代足球运动员实际上是狩猎团体的一员。

1992年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair.

现实是，写作是一件孤独、私密、收入微薄的事情。

1997年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do.

在这一路上的某个地方，我的崇高理想破灭了，就像所有崇高理想最终都会破灭一样。

2001年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t’ mix as easily as I assumed in high school.

阻碍我成为典型成功学生的现实是，工程和文科并不像我在高中时想象的那样容易混合。

2001年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级“But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like When I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.

“但正视这些数字让我明白了现实；比如当我遇到失去一条腿的13岁女孩桑德拉，以及像她这样的人时。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied.

在这个网络聊天、电子游戏和真人秀盛行的时代，让孩子忙碌起来的无脑活动比比皆是。

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Nowadays, she says she repeats her instructions, and even conducts a reality check with some patients.

如今，她说她会重复自己的指示，甚至会对一些患者进行现实检查。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Mr Jobs was said by an engineer in the early years of Apple to emit a “reality distortion (扭曲)field”, such were his powers of persuasion.

苹果早期的一位工程师说乔布斯发出了“现实扭曲”的声音(扭曲)这就是他的说服力。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题（2）

四级This translates into a sobering (令人清醒的) reality: once we become fat, most of us, despite out best efforts, will probably stay fat.

这转化为发人深省(令人清醒的) 现实：一旦我们变胖了，尽管我们尽了最大的努力，大多数人还是可能保持肥胖。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级But till now, they've been something like a mirage (幻影) in the distance, more like a hazy (模糊的) dream than an actual reality.

但到目前为止，它们就像海市蜃楼(幻影) 在远处，更像一片朦胧(模糊的) 梦想而非现实。

2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题(第2套)

四级But till now, they’ve been something like a mirage（幻影）in the distance, more like a hazy（模糊的）dream than an actual reality.

但到目前为止，它们就像海市蜃楼(幻影）在远处，更像一片朦胧(模糊的）梦想而非现实。

2013年 6月大学英语四级考试真题

四级While we sleep, research indicates, the brain replays the patterns of activity it experienced during waking hours, allowing us to enter what one psychologist calls a neural（神经的）virtual reality.

研究表明，当我们睡觉时，大脑会回放醒着时的活动模式，使我们能够进入一位心理学家所说的神经系统(神经的）虚拟现实。

2020年7月大学英语四级真题

四级In pursuit of revealing this compli-cated reality, Mothering Justice, led by women of color, went last year to the state capital in Lansing, Michigan, to lobby on issues that affect working mothers.

为了揭示这一复杂的现实，去年，由有色人种女性领导的“母亲正义”组织前往密歇根州首府兰辛，就影响职业母亲的问题进行游说。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级And in most cases in the America of 2019, the images that come to mind when we hear the words poverty or income inequality fail miserably in reflecting a complicated reality: poverty touches virtually all of us.

在2019年的美国，大多数情况下，当我们听到贫困或收入不平等这个词时，脑海中浮现的画面都无法反映一个复杂的现实：贫困几乎影响到我们所有人。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级The reality is that finding opportunity without help from families, friends, schools, and community is virtually impossible.

现实是，如果没有家人、朋友、学校和社区的帮助，几乎不可能找到机会。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级Similar ideas surround poverty in the U. S. And these assumptions give a false picture of reality.

类似的想法围绕着美国的贫困，这些假设对现实的描述是错误的。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级In reality, most people will experience some form of financial hardship at some point in their lives.

事实上，大多数人在一生中的某个时刻都会经历某种形式的经济困难。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研In science the meaning of the word “explain” suffers with civilization’s every step in search of reality.

在科学中，“解释”一词的含义伴随着文明探索现实的每一步。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated Western thought for two thousand years, believed that man could arrive at an understanding of reality by reasoning from self-evident principles.

例如亚里士多德，他的自然科学主导了西方思想两千年，他认为人类可以通过从不言自明的原理进行推理来理解现实。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研In fact, far from being strange, most of the gifted were turning their early promise into practical reality.

事实上，一点也不奇怪，大多数有天赋的人都把他们早期的承诺变成了现实。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term “downshifting”has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

奇怪的是，大约两年半的时间和两部小说之后，我对美国人所说的“放慢节奏”的实验将我疲惫的借口变成了绝对的现实。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In less than 30 years’ time the Star Trek holodeck will be a reality.

在不到30年的时间里，《星际迷航》全息甲板将成为现实。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研But not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.

但是，即使是一个伟大的医疗保健系统也无法治愈死亡——而我们未能面对这一现实，现在威胁着我们的伟大。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money.

钢铁工人、航空公司员工，以及现在汽车行业的员工，都加入了数百万家庭的行列，他们必须担心利率、股市波动，以及他们可能比退休钱活得更长的严酷现实。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研The Internet—and pressure from funding agencies, who are questioning why commercial publishers are making money from government–funded research by restricting access to it—is making access to scientific results a reality.

互联网——以及来自资助机构的压力，他们质疑为什么商业出版商通过限制获取政府资助的研究来赚钱——正在使获取科学成果成为现实。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研The trend in sports, though, may be obscuring an unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing.

然而，体育运动的趋势可能掩盖了一个未被承认的现实：美国人普遍停止了增长。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题