actuality

1. PHRASE You can use in actuality to emphasize that what you are saying is true, when it contradicts or contrasts with what you have previously said. 事實(shí)上[書(shū)面] [PHR with cl]

In actuality, Ted did not have a disorder but merely a difficult temperament. 事實(shí)上，特德并沒(méi)有什么異常而只是脾氣不好。

2. N-UNCOUNT Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined. 實(shí)際

It exists in dreams rather than actuality. 它于夢(mèng)想而非實(shí)際中存在。