A proper sense of history helps you grasp that progress depends on facing up to hard choices.

对历史正确认识有助于理解进步取决于面对艰难选择这个道理。

There is no point, facing up to mountain, trying to walk the way you want to go.

没什么要点, 面向大山, 尝试走到那里.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.

简言之，理解意味着无论面对何种现实，总要坦然地、专心地面对它、抵抗它。

But if we're not prepared to ask ourselves the hard questions, we're not really facing up to this challenge.

但如果我们不准备问自己这些尖锐的问题，我们就没有真正面对这个挑战。

It's not clear. The U.S. probably has quite a lot of evidence. And Assange is facing up to 175 years in prison.

目前并不清楚。美国可能掌握着大量证据。阿桑奇面临最高175年刑期。

The government is putting forward new legislation which could see migrants who enter Britain without permission facing up to four years in prison

政府正在提出新的立法，未经许可进入英国的移民可能面临最高四年的监禁。

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.

总之，理解意味着不先入为主、认真地面对并抗衡现实一一不管它可能是什么，或曾经是什么。

Charles and Camilla face undoubted challenges, keeping the monarchy relevant to Modern British Society, facing up to its role in Britain's often brutal Colonial past.

查尔斯和卡米拉面临着毫无疑问的挑战，他们要保持君主制与现代英国社会的联系，面对它在英国残酷的殖民历史中所扮演的角色。

The Royalist army was 9,000 strong facing up to 13,500 Parliamentarians, with both sides unable to see the enemy in the thick morning fog.

保皇党军队有9000人， 面对着13500名议员，双方在浓浓的晨雾中都看不到敌人。

Amid this web of financial challenges, councils are facing up to the uncomfortable truth that for many years, the books have been balanced on the backs of women.

在这种财政挑战的网络中，地方议会正面对一个令人不安的事实：多年来，账面平衡一直借助于女性来实现。

We know that reaching that blessed destination where we are judged all of us by the content of our character requires admitting as much facing up to the truth.

我们知道，要实现我们被人评价依据的是品质这个目标，需要承认我们所面对的现实。

That day, several leading figures of the Saudi women's-rights movement were still detained on unspecified charges, facing up to 20 years in prison and unable to mark the achievement of a goal they had been working toward for years.

当天，数名沙特女性权利运动领导者被扣押，但扣押原因不明，为之奋斗多年的目标终于实现，她们自己却没能亲眼见证胜利的一刻，摆在她们面前的是长达20年的牢狱之灾。