He is a political pragmatist, not an idealist.

他是个政治上的实用主义者，而不是个理想主义者。

Far from being a dreamer, she's a level-headed pragmatist.

她是个冷静理智的实用主义者，远非一个空想家。

I'm a, philosophically I'm a pragmatist.

从哲学上来讲，我是个实用主义者。

He is a forward thinking pragmatist.

他是一个有远见的实用主义者。

I'm not an idealist, I'm a pragmatist.

我不是理想主义者，我是一个实用主义者。

He is a pragmatist.

他是一个务实的。

But he is a pragmatist, albeit a principled one.

但他是一个实用主义者，尽管他有自己的原则。

I'm a pragmatist.

我是个实用主义者。

Mr Paulson is a dealmaker and, foremost, a pragmatist.

保尔森先生是一位操盘手(dealmaker)，但更是一位实用主义者。

I am neither cynical nor a pessimist but just a pragmatist.

我既不是愤世嫉俗也不是悲观主义者，只是一个实用主义者。

He is not a pragmatist putting results ahead of performance.

他不是一个强调结果比过程重要的人。

Back in 2001 I thought of myself as a pragmatist, and I still do.

回到2001年，我当时认为自己是个实干的人，现在我也这么看。

He was a pragmatist, one who instinctively reached for compromise.

他是位实用主义者，一位具有妥协本能的人。

He is a forward-thinking pragmatist but has little experience in government.

他是一位有远见的实用主义者，但从政经验甚少。

Are these the signs of a flexible man, a pragmatist rather than an ideologue?

这些是一个灵活的人，一个实用主义者而非理论家的标志吗？

You're the surprised the guy's a pragmatist after looking at this place?

看了这个地方后你还不信他是个实用主义者？

The entrepreneur is an odd mix: part dreamer, part brutal realist and pragmatist.

创业家是一个怪异的混合体：部分是梦想家，部分是现实主义者和实用主义者。

But I'm a pragmatist and you can't make a living with the Chinese language in Singapore.

但是，我重务实，不能靠华语在新加坡找生活。

Mr Obama is intelligent, inspiring and appears by instinct to be a consensus-seeking pragmatist.

奥巴马聪明，有感染力，似乎骨子里就是一个始终寻求共识的实用主义者。

Boris Yeltsin was preparing to step down and make way for the young pragmatist Vladimir Putin.

叶利钦准备下台，并为年轻的实用主义者弗拉基米尔·普京让路。

Less of a control freak than Mr Karimov, he is a pragmatist who is credited with creating prosperity.

和卡里莫夫相比，纳扎尔巴耶夫没有过强的控制欲，他被认为是一个实用主义者，带来了繁荣。

The usual reply to such criticism is that Obama is basically a pragmatist, who will do what he thinks can work.

对于这类批评，通常的回应认为，奥巴马基本上是一个实用主义者，他会做那些他认为有用的事情。

I would like to think that I'm a pragmatist and that I will use those things that help me and discard those that don't.

我希望被认为是一个实用主义者，我只使用那些可以帮我的东西，忽略那些对我没有用处的东西。

The pessimist complain about wind while the optimist waits for the wind to change and the pragmatist adjusts the sail.

悲观者埋怨刮风；乐观者静候风变；现实者调整风帆。

A pragmatist might contend that this is no time to quibble about economic theories. We need measures that get proven results.

实用主义者或许会声称，现在没有时间辩论经济理论，我们需要能证明结果的措施。

Now I'm all for optimism, don't get me wrong. But as a pragmatist, I can't help but sprinkle a little reality into an optimist's dreams.

别误会，如今我可是一个坚定地乐观主义者。但作为一个实用主义者，我又禁不住要让些许现实照进乐观主义者的梦想中。

Though he longed for the masses of India to “emerge victorious” in a society without caste, class or exploitation, Mr Basu was above all a pragmatist.

尽管他渴望印度的普通大众能够“胜利崛起”，能够生活在在一个没有种姓、没有阶级、没有剥削的社会里，但他却是实用主义为先。

This, too, is a neo-pragmatist position. Now you notice that in the third part of the Knapp and Michaels essay, they engage in a kind of polite disagreement with Fish.

这也是一种新实用主义的观点，现在你们可以发现，在Knapp和Michaels的论文中第三部分，他们对Fish有一种客气的不一致意见。