realism
n[U]
1 attitudes and behaviour based on the acceptance of facts and the rejection of sentiment and illusion 现实主义的态度和行为.
2 (in art and literature) portrayal of familiar things as they really are without idealizing them (文艺的)现实主义, 写实主义. Cf 参看 classicism, romanticism (romantic).
3 (philosophy 哲) theory that matter has real existence independent of our perception of it 唯实论; 实在论. Cf 参看 idealism.
About a third of the people who had been chained up below at the beginning of the journey were missing.
旅程开始时拴在下边的人大约有三分之一已经不见了。
Professor Karl von Frisch, an Austrian scientist, spent many years of his life researching the amazing ways honey bees communicate in their dark hives.