(adj.) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; 'the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different'; 'actual and imagined conditions' .

(adj.) being or existing at the present moment; 'the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West' .

(adj.) taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; 'we saw the actual wedding on television'; 'filmed the actual beating' .

(adj.) existing in act or fact; 'rocks and trees...the actual world'; 'actual heroism'; 'the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced' .

(adj.) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; 'her actual motive'; 'a literal solitude like a desert'- G.K.Chesterton; 'a genuine dilemma' .

胡安編輯

• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• They jostled, browbeat, and threatened one another, but they did not come to actual hostilities. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• She had her queer, radiant, breathless manner, as if confused by the actual world, unreal to it, having a complete bright world of her self alone. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• For then you are dealing with living ideas: to search his text has its uses, but compared with the actual tradition of Marx it is the work of pedantry. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• My dear Maurice, you will be happier in the actual battle than in all the statecraft which leads to it. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• No ingenuity could make such a picture beautiful--to one's actual vision. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• They would have been safer, though they had been taken in actual war against the Saracens, if they had once drank water with them. 本杰明·富蘭克林. 富蘭克林自傳.
• Every event was measured by the emotions of the mind, not by its actual existence, for existence it had none. 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• In a tree we can distinguish this or that branch, though at the actual fork the two unite and blend together. 查爾斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Rifled cannon were first employed in actual service in Louis Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1859, and were first introduced in the United States service by General James in 1861. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.

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