What do professors and academics sitting in their ivory towers know about the real world?

那些坐在象牙塔里的教授和学者对真实世界又知道多少？

The museum made the mistake of accepting the painting before it had been authenticated.

在还未确认这幅画的真实性之前就错误地把它接受了。

A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.

记者必须始终践行真实、正直、正义的理想。

Your remark was wide of the truth.

你说的话很不真实。

Are you satisfied of the truth of his story?

你完全说的那件事的真实性吗?

The novel originally came from a true love affair.

这本小说原先是从一真实的爱情故事发展而来的。

Her true nature was a revelation to me.

她的真实性格对我是一新发现。

We had to have the signature notarized.

我们得检验这签名的真实性。

The news may be unexpected;nevertheless it is true.

这消息也许是出乎意料的, 然而是真实的。

This is the motive the rhymist tell us.

这便是诗人想要告诉人们的真实意图。

I believe what he has said is partly true.

我刚才说的话一部分是真实的。

It is a statement with a few grains of truth.

这是一有些真实的声明。

Such impressiveness usually takes the form of a truly grandiose realism.

这种感人的情景通常采用真实的蔚为壮观的写实主义手法表现出来。

There’s not a jot of truth in the story.

这说法一点真实性也没有。

He swore that his story was true.

发誓说的故事是真实的。

There’s not a vestige of truth in the witness’s statement.

这证人的证词没有一丝一毫的真实性。

We do not have the true figures so we will have to make some approximations.

我们没有真实的数字，因此只能作些粗略的估计。

I am basing my opinion purely and simply on the facts of the case.

我的观点完全是基于案例的真实情况。

The gentle lower slopes belie the true nature of the mountain.

低缓的山坡掩盖了这座山的真实特点。

Or the writer may, riskily, ask the questioners what is real, anyway?

有的作家或许会冒昧地反问提问题的人：究竟什么是真实？