英语词典 · 单词释义
truth
英 [truːθ] 美 [trʊθ]
这里集中整理“truth”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 真理；事实；诚实；实质
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: truths;
助记提示
1. naked truth 赤裸裸的事实.
2. falsehood, truth: 上面两个词是希腊神话中的两个小女子，falsehood(丑）和truth 洗澡后，偷了truth 的衣服，而truth 则不穿falsehood 的衣服.
2. falsehood, truth: 上面两个词是希腊神话中的两个小女子，falsehood(丑）和truth 洗澡后，偷了truth 的衣服，而truth 则不穿falsehood 的衣服.
中文词源
truth 事实，真相，真实
来自 true,真实的，-th,名词后缀。
英文词源
- 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]
双语例句
- 1. He told some lies and sometimes just embroidered the truth.
- 他说了些谎，有时只是对事实添油加醋了一番。
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- 2. She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.
- 她将这一判决称为真理对谬误的胜利。
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- 3. They can't destroy truth without destroying each and every one of us.
- 除非他们将我们赶尽杀绝，否则真理不灭。
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- 4. We want to get at the truth. Who killed him? And why?
- 我们想查明真相。是谁杀了他？为什么？
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- 5. We set out to find the truth behind the mystery.
- 我们开始着手揭开谜团背后的真相。
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