reality check

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So, in a sense, we want her to break the date because it gives us a fantastic reality check.
在某種意義上，我們希望她取消約會(huì)，因?yàn)檫@給了我們一次奇妙的現(xiàn)實(shí)檢驗(yàn)。
Reality check: I have never heard anyone procrastinate their way to success before and I doubt it’s going to change in the near future.
現(xiàn)狀核實(shí)：我以前從未聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)有哪個(gè)拖延的人取得成功的，我懷疑將來(lái)他們也不會(huì)成功。
We had our first reality check at Pyongyang airport, when our mobile phones were confiscated. This evidence of total state control was immediate and shocking.
我們?cè)谄饺罊C(jī)場(chǎng)第一次接受現(xiàn)實(shí)的檢查，我們的手機(jī)都被沒(méi)收了，這種完全的國(guó)家控制行為直接而令人震驚。

She is also his emotional and spiritual guide, the one who provides a reality check for him.
All right, so let's just do a reality check here.
好，讓我們來(lái)做一個(gè)現(xiàn)實(shí)性的檢驗(yàn)。
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Coming after a week of almost-universally upbeat economic data that buoyed U.S.markets, Wednesday's more-somber news is a reality-check, according to Alan Brown of Schroders, an asset management company.

Taken together the three treatments provide a wealth of context, and the occasional reality check.
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an occasion that causes you to consider the facts about a situation and not your opinions, ideas, or beliefs

If you say that something is a reality check for someone, you mean that it makes them recognize the truth about a situation, especially about the difficulties involved in something they want to achieve.