be realistic

基本解释

Your salary expectations should be realistic.
对薪水的期望应该是现实的。
Attitudes in Serbia and Kosovo are not going to change in a month or a year. We must be realistic, and we must be forward-looking.
塞尔维亚和科索沃的态度，在未来一个月或一年是不会改变的，我们必须面对现实，而且需要有长远的眼光。
But I also want to be realistic.
但是我也想要现实一点。

So I think the police service has the responsibility to involve us in that discussion and we as the public, as parliamentarians,have a responsibility to respond intelligently to that and be realistic about the hard choices that are made,"
So it wouldn't be realistic that Muslims, you know, going to claim Vatican, for instance.
所以如果让穆斯林人，宣布占领梵蒂冈，那就不现实了。
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So in retrospect, I think the way to deal with crisis, deal with challenge, deal with difficult times, is like this: First, you need to be realistic.
回首去年，我们应对危机，面对挑战时，所采取的方法就是：,首先，要变得现实一些。
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Before you start, you need to be realistic about where your credit stands now.
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