人生不如意事十之八九，每個(gè)人都有各種各樣的煩惱：工作上雜亂的瑣事，身體上偶爾的小疾，感情上的磕磕碰碰……當(dāng)面對(duì)自己不愿相信的事物時(shí)，有些人會(huì)選擇“掩耳盜鈴”。那么，這些被人們視而不見(jiàn)的真相，英文該怎么說(shuō)呢？來(lái)學(xué)個(gè)新詞：

Substition refers to a fact that many people do not believe.
“公眾不接受的真相”是指許多人不相信的事實(shí)。

Substition was coined by the British novelist Terry Pratchett, who died on March 12, 2015 from Alzheimer's disease. It's the opposite of superstition. That is, a superstition is something that isn't real, but many people believe, so a substition is something that is real, but many people do not believe.
這個(gè)詞是由英國(guó)小說(shuō)家泰瑞·普萊契創(chuàng)造的(普萊契于2015年3月12日死于阿茲海默癥)。該詞是superstition(迷信)的反義詞。也就是說(shuō)，superstition是某種不真實(shí)的事物，但許多人相信，而substition則是某種真實(shí)存在的事物，但許多人卻反而不信。

Substition和substitution(代替，替換)在拼寫(xiě)上極為相似，在學(xué)習(xí)和背誦時(shí)一定要注意兩者的差別。

For Example：

Climate change is a substition. For most of human history, bacteria and viruses weren't believed to be real even though people died of them. Bacteria were a substition. Just because you don't believe in infectious diseases doesn't make them any less real.
許多人不相信氣候發(fā)生了變化。在人類歷史中，人們也不相信存在細(xì)菌和病毒，就算他們會(huì)因細(xì)菌和病毒而死。很多人不相信細(xì)菌是真實(shí)存在的事物，但并不會(huì)因?yàn)槟悴幌嘈庞袀魅静。驼娴牟淮嬖诹恕?/p>

（中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 丁一）