事實上;其實
for (all) practical purposes
used when you are stating what the reality of a situation is
There's still another ten minutes of the game to go, but for practical purposes it's already over.比賽雖然還有十分鐘,但實際上等於已經結束了。
釋義來自《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》第 9 版