he is a realist and compromiser who seeks the middle way, not a liberal ideologue.
他是一位现实主义者和谈判家,寻求的是中间路线而不是自由主义意识形态。
it is understandable that a realist would despair.
现实主义者将会绝望,这是可以理解的。
the realist is skeptical – and sometimes downright negative – because his or her focus is on the steps along the way, not on the outcome.
而现实主义者是怀疑态度的,有时候直接就是消极的,因为他或她集中注意力在过程上,不是结果上。
nietzsche by contrast is a realist about consciousness and mind.
相反针对意识和精神尼采则是一名“现实主义者
for me and for millions of others who live in the modern reality of computers and the internet, william gibson's imagined future is closer to the truth of now than any work of realist literature.
对于我以及其他的数以百万记的生活在当今计算机和网络现实世界中的人来说,威廉吉布森虚构出的未来比那些现实主义者的着作更接近现实真相。
the realist answer is simple if surprising: international relations would be largely unaffected.
现实主义者的回答简单得令人吃惊:国际关系多半不会受到影响。
instead, the middle kingdom of today is a realist power, concerned with regime survival, territorial integrity, and protecting access to resources and markets.
相反,中土王国如今是一个现实主义大国,关注政权维系、领土完整,以及保护其获得资源和市场的通道。
but these concerns, he argued, make him more of a realist than a pessimist and put him in the role of the cleareyed outsider — unsettling complacency and puncturing pieties.
他声称,这些关切与其说让他成为一位悲观主义者,倒不如说使他变成一位现实主义者,一位破除自满,戳穿虔诚,眼光犀利的局外人。