核心畫面

You can hold up two things side by side — a picture and the real thing, a plan and the world — and ask how well they match. Realistic is the word for a good match. A painting so you nearly reach out, a person who sees the situation as it is, a goal that fits what can actually happen: in all of them, something has been checked against reality and lines up with it.

realistic 可以想成把兩樣東西並排放著比對:一邊是畫(或想法、目標),另一邊是真實世界,然後問一句「對得起來更多收起realistic 可以想成把兩樣東西並排放著比對:一邊是畫(或想法、目標),另一邊是真實世界,然後問一句「對得起來嗎?」對得上,就是 realistic。一幅逼真到讓你想伸手去摸的畫、一個看事情不加濾鏡的人、一個真的做得到的目標——共通點都是有拿去跟現實比過,而且合得上。

Two branches

看起來就跟真的一樣

最看得見的一支:拿作品跟真實世界對照,越像就越 realistic。

showing real life · adjective · B1

showing people, places, or events in a picture, story, film, or game as they are in real life.

寫實的;逼真的

想法和目標貼著現實走

同一個「對得上現實」的動作,只是這次被比對的不是圖像,而是腦子裡的判斷和計畫。

practical, not idealistic · adjective · B1

judging a situation in a practical way, based on what can really happen, not only on what you hope for.

實際的;務實的

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

realisticadj/ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/

  • 1

    Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.

    • A realistic appraisal of the situation.
    • Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
  • 2

    Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.

    • A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.
  • 3

    Possible or practical to achieve; based on what is real or practical.

    • a realistic goal

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。