You realize your beliefs were acting like lens that perceived reality to be conducive to your beliefs, thereby shaping your actions without even knowing it.

你意识到你的信仰就像一个镜头，感知到的现实有助于你的信仰，从而塑造你的行为，甚至不知道它。

Literature had gone so far away from the perceived reality of the espionage business that people were crying out to have their perceptions of the reality reflected in a new kind of book.

文学已经与间谍活动的现实相去甚远，以至于人们迫切希望能在一种新的书中反映他们对现实的看法。