He is a practical man and doesn't like empty talk.

他是一个注重实干的人，不喜欢空谈。

We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. The Americans are an extremely interesting people.

我们务实的人喜欢看东西，而不是阅读它们。美国人是一个非常有趣的民族。

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

自认为完全不受任何知识分子影响的务实人士通常是某个已故经济学家的奴隶。

For him the practical interest and the practical man were such as looked forward to the next election, or perhaps, in corporations, five or ten years.

对他来说，实际的兴趣和实际的人就是期待下一次选举，或者，在公司中，可能是五年或十年。

To practical men, after all, the " rub-a-dub" agitation of a few abolitionists, an occasional riot over fugitive slaves, and the vogue of a popular novel seemed of slight or transient importance.

——对于务实的人来说， 毕竟，一些废奴主义者的“rub-a-dub”鼓动，对逃亡奴隶的偶尔骚乱， 以及流行小说的流行似乎微不足道或短暂。

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man; but any attempt to deal with them seriously as education is fatal.

在实践中，原则上的矛盾之类的小事很容易被搁置； 忽视它们的能力造就了务实的人； 但任何试图认真对待它们的教育都是致命的。

But further, if we are not to fail in our endeavour to determine the value of philosophy, we must first free our minds from the prejudices of what are wrongly called 'practical' men.

但更进一步，如果我们不想在我们确定哲学价值的努力中失败，我们必须首先使我们的思想摆脱被错误地称为“实用”人的偏见。

All these things are not commonly noticed in looking at a table, because experience has taught us to construct the 'real' shape from the apparent shape, and the 'real' shape is what interests us as practical men.

在看一张桌子时通常不会注意到所有这些东西， 因为经验告诉我们要从表面形状构造“真实” 形状，而“真实” 形状是我们作为务实的人感兴趣的东西。

Thomas Gradgrind took no heed of these trivialities of course, but passed on as a practical man ought to pass on, either brushing the noisy insects from his thoughts, or consigning them to the House of Correction.

托马斯·葛雷格林 (Thomas Gradgrind) 当然没有理会这些琐事，而是按照一个务实的人应该过的方式过去了，要么将吵闹的昆虫从他的思想中抹去，要么将它们交给惩教所。

Now, Colonel Pyncheon, I need hardly say, was a practical man, well acquainted with public and private business, and not at all the person to cherish ill-founded hopes, or to attempt the following out of an impracticable scheme.

现在，品钦上校，我几乎不用说，是一个务实的人，对公私事务了如指掌，绝不是一个抱有毫无根据的希望，或尝试实施一个不切实际的计划的人。

The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind.

“务实”的人，正如这个词经常被使用的那样，是一个只认识到物质需求的人，他们意识到人们必须为身体提供食物，但忘记了为精神提供食物的必要性。