- 1真實生活的、現實生活中的（相對虛構、電影、遊戲）
Real-life is an adjective for things that happen, or happened, to actual people in the actual world — not in a book, a film, a game, or a made-up classroom example. A real-life hero, a real-life problem, a film based on a real-life couple. Teachers use it a lot: “This is a real-life situation.” Though actually, people stretch it. A “real-life” magazine story may still be tidied up; and “Get a real life,” said sharply, is a different, looser use of the same two words, telling someone to stop wasting time on something the speaker thinks is not serious. The is normal before a noun (a real-life story). After a verb you more often see the two words open: “It happened in real life.”
這個形容詞指發生在真實世界裡的人與事，跟書、電影、遊戲或虛構的例子相對。它常見的搭配像 「a real-life hero」，或是 「a film based on a real-life couple」，後者是根據真實情侶拍成的電影。老師也很常說 「This is a real-life situation」，意思是這是真實生活會遇到的情況。
放在名詞前面要加連字號，放在動詞後面通常寫成兩個字，例如 「It happened in real life」。另外有一種說法 「Get a real life」 語氣很衝，是叫人別再浪費時間在不重要的事上，跟這裡的意思不同。
組成real (actual, not made up) + life (ordinary living). A hyphenated compound.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
real-lifeadj
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As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed.
- He was a real-life detective before playing one in the movies.
- Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
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Not online, in real life.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。