1.not reflecting or considering the facts
2.expressing what has not actually happened but might have happened in other circumstances
1.a statement expressing something that did not happen but might have
1.But what would have happened afterwards depends, as in so many of these exercises, on innumerable counterfactuals.
但接下来会发生什么，则要取决于数不清的与事实相反的因素——正如我们在许多类似推演中遇到的情况一样。
2.But politics eschews counterfactuals: "we saved you from a depression" is not a vote-winning slogan.
但政治是惯于回避“反事实”的——“我们把你从萧条边缘救了回来”不是一个拉得到选票的口号。
3.For real counterfactuals, look to the poverty of autarkic Burma, or the miseries of North Korea and Cuba.
要找真正的反面事实，不妨看看封闭的缅甸之贫穷，或者朝鲜和古巴的苦难。
4.But voters respond to facts, not counterfactuals, and the perception is that the administration's policies have failed.
然而，选民认的是事实，而不是假设，现在的理念就是政府的政策已经失败。