truth的意思

truth

英 [truːθ] 美 [trʊθ]

近義詞	truth 、 actuality 、 reality 、 information 、 gospel 、 unvarnished 、 naked 、 plain 、 inside 、 intelligence 、 story

TEM4CET4IELTS考研CET6中高頻詞基本詞匯

複數: truths;

1. naked truth 赤裸裸的事實.
2. falsehood, truth: 上麵兩個詞是希臘神話中的兩個小女子，falsehood(醜）和truth 洗澡後，偷了truth 的衣服，而truth 則不穿falsehood 的衣服.

truth 事實，真相，真實

來自 true,真實的，-th,名詞後綴。

truth: truth: see true
truth (n.): Old English triewð (West Saxon), treowð (Mercian) "faith, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty; veracity, quality of being true; pledge, covenant," from triewe, treowe "faithful" (see true (adj.)), with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).

Sense of "something that is true" is first recorded mid-14c. Meaning "accuracy, correctness" is from 1560s. English and most other IE languages do not have a primary verb for for "speak the truth," as a contrast to lie (v.). Truth squad in U.S. political sense first attested in the 1952 U.S. presidential election campaign.
At midweek the Republican campaign was bolstered by an innovation--the "truth squad" ..., a team of senators who trailed whistle-stopping Harry Truman to field what they denounced as his wild pitches. ["Life," Oct. 13, 1952]

Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. [Milton, "Areopagitica," 1644]

1. He told some lies and sometimes just embroidered the truth.: 他說了些謊，有時隻是對事實添油加醋了一番。

2. She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.: 她將這一判決稱為真理對謬誤的勝利。

3. They can't destroy truth without destroying each and every one of us.: 除非他們將麻豆成人午夜视频趕盡殺絕，否則真理不滅。

4. We want to get at the truth. Who killed him? And why?: 麻豆成人午夜视频想查明真相。是誰殺了他？為什麽？