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. 事实上[书面] [PHR with cl]

In actuality, Ted did not have a disorder but merely a difficult temperament. 事实上，特德并没有什么异常而只是脾气不好。

2. N-UNCOUNT Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined. 实际

It exists in dreams rather than actuality. 它于梦想而非实际中存在。