现实政治

Given these brutal political realities, the IMF has done bank shareholders a favour by steering politicians in a relatively equitable and less distortive direction.

鉴于这些残酷的政治现实，IMF实际上为银行股东做了一件好事，即引导政界人士走上相对公平和较少扭曲的方向。

Neither of these ideals has been more than briefly and episodically descriptive of reality, or has served, except momentarily, as the principle around which the politics of race was organized, because, alas, not many realms in American life have been either truly color-blind or truly integrated.

这些观点只能是来自于对现实的一种短暂、肤浅地描述，或只能暂时地服务于形成种族政治的理论，因为，唉，在美国社会生活里能做到真正的&色盲&或真正的&种族融和&的领域并没有多少！

Foundationally, American military operations serve its global strategies. Objectively, the international politics in the Post-Cold War era provides United States with preferable conditions to resort to force. Subjectively, United States has actual demands to conduct military operations.

从根本上，美国对外军事行动都是服务于它的全球战略；从客观上，冷战后的国际政治为美国提供了有利的条件；从主观上，美国具有采取军事行动的现实需求。

The author believe that our Party must has hers theory and reality basement to bing forward the geal of Constructing Socialist harmonious society.

笔者认为党提出&构建社会主义和谐社会&的目标是有其理论和现实基础的，这个目标的提出，对建设有中国特色的社会主义具有重大的政治、经济和理论意义；笔者以为，构建社会主义和谐社会是一个长期的历史过程，提出了全面提高党的执政能力，以科学发展观为指导，构建社会主义和谐社会的措施；坚持以人为本，提高党激发社会创造活力的本领；坚持从有利于全面发展的角度加强社会建设，提高党管理社会事务的本领；坚持从有利于协调发展的角度，提高党协调利益关系、促进社会公平和正义，实现社会安定团结的本领；加快推进经济结构调整和增长方式转变，不断提高驾驭社会主义市场经济的能力；坚持从有利于可持续发展的角度来加强党的执政能力建设，实现人与自然的和谐发展。

Indeed, a growing number of physicians have come to feel that the Hippocratic Oath is inadequate to address the realities of a medical world that has witnessed huge scientific, economic, political, and social changes, a world of legalized abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and pestilences unheard of in Hippocrates' time.

确实，越来越多的医生感到希波克拉底誓言不足以指正以科学、经济、政治和社会的巨大变化为指导的医学世界的现实，合法堕胎、医生帮助自杀和希波克拉底时代所未见的瘟疫等等。

The history for more than 20 years since the reform and open policy shows and will prove incontrovertibly that the village self-government has laid a solid foundation for Chinese democracy to develop in the process of the reform, economy and social politics through the gross-roots democracy, which is not factitious, but is the outcome of the economic and social development.

改革开放二十多年的历程已经和正在雄辩地证明，村民自治使中国民主的发展在改革和经济、社会发展过程中形成了一条具有良好现实基础的发展道路，即通过基层民主建设来推动民主政治整体发展。

The fact that the European political union has formed and developed raised an unavoidable question: How to look upon Lenin's opinion: a Federal Europe under the capitalist system is irrealizable or reactionary.

欧洲政治联盟形成与发展的现实，为我们提出了一个无法回避的问题：如何看待列宁认为建立&欧洲联邦&&在资本主义制度下不是无法实现的，便是反动的&观点。

A century before, Nicolo Machiavelli had emphasized the harsh realities of power, as well as recalling ancient Roman experiences of political freedom.

在此一个世纪前，尼科络·马基雅维里就已强调了权力的严酷现实，并追述了古代罗马人在政治自由上的经验。

Policy Exchange, a centre-right think-tank, looked at the A-levels offered by successful applicants to a group of 27 very selective universities—some ancient, some modern—and concluded that, despite the fact that all subjects are notionally equal, in reality admissions tutors think more of some than of others.

一个名为政治交换的中右智囊团精选了27所古老的或现代的大学，研究了那些成功的A级申请者，并得到这样的结论：尽管事实上所有课程理论上都是平等的，但是现实中招生导师会偏向于其中某些。

The tradition we have to face is Marxism and Chinese Confucianism. The former, has gradually lost its function of criticizing the practical reality due to its political and ideological influence while the latter lacks a real spirit of self-criticism as it is overanxious for its rejuvenation and rebuilding in its contemporary tottering context.

我们所面对的思想传统主要有马克思主义和中国儒家思想二者，前者由于政治意识形态化的影响，逐渐丧失了对于现实社会的批判功能；后者则在当今时代风雨飘零的情况下急于复兴重建，却缺乏一种真正的自我批判精神。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。