prag·mat·ic
adjective/præɡˈmætɪk/
/præɡˈmætɪk/
- solving problems in a practical and sensible way rather than by having fixed ideas or theories
实用的；讲求实效的；务实的 - a pragmatic approach to management problems
对管理问题采取的务实做法
Extra Examples- They're pragmatic about the spending cuts.
他们在削减开支方面很务实。 - We must be ruthlessly pragmatic and intensely focused.
我们必须坚定地坚持务实态度，必须专心致志。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the senses ‘busy, interfering, conceited’): via Latin from Greek pragmatikos ‘relating to fact’, from pragma ‘deed’ (from the stem of prattein ‘do’). The current senses date from the mid 19th cent. - a pragmatic approach to management problems