| 单词 | in real life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin real life Life as it is lived in reality, involving unwelcome as well as welcome experiences, as distinct from a fictional or idealized world; (also) one's regular or customary life. Frequently in in real life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > as it actually exists real life1694 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > the real world or real life real life1694 real world1721 1694 W. Burnaby tr. Petronius Satyr (new ed.) sig. A3v In short, my Lord, I shall be very proud to Please a Sidney;..whose Characters are Romances to the rest of Mankind, but real Life in his own Family. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband sig. A7 I thought such violent Measures, however just they might be in real Life, were too severe for Comedy. 1766 E. Carter Let. 1 July in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 138 The most visionary speculatist must sometimes awake to the cares and solicitudes of real life. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. iii. 70 Nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind v. 34 Insolence to a governess is an old stock complaint. In real life, I never heard of it from anyone by birth and breeding a lady. 1930 C. R. Benstead Retreat i. 26 My servant's looking after you pro tem. Bell. You'll find him a good 'un. A laird or something in real life. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 182 One could..give everything away, change one's name and start out with no money... But in real life nobody ever does that kind of thing. 2002 C. M. Byron Martha Inc. vii. 92 Instead of real life in the exhausted two-income households of the stagflation seventies, Entertaining offered a fantasy world of grandiloquent leisure. < as lemmas |
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