| 正面 | 852.truth 英 [truːθ]美 [trʊθ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 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.n. 真理；事实；诚实；实质 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。 truth 事实，真相，真实来自 true,真实的，-th,名词后缀。 truthtruth: see truetruth (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]" |