| 英语单词 | falsehood |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['fɔːlshʊd] 美 ['fɔːlshʊd] |
| 中文释义 | n.谎言;虚假 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. (2) One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. (3) I am greased with falsehood and treachery. (4) It is sometimes difficult to disentangle truth from falsehood. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 谎言是灾祸的骑师。 (2) 一个谎言毁坏千条真理。 (3) 我全身都涂满了虚假和不忠实的润滑油。 (4) 从虚假中解开事实有时是困难的。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A falsehood is a lie. If your mom has an uncanny knack for knowing when you're telling a falsehood, it means she always knows when you're stretching the truth. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The noun falsehood is a slightly fancy or old-fashioned way of saying "lie." It's hard to ever completely trust a friend again once he's told you a falsehood, although sometimes people tell small falsehoods simply to make others feel better. Telling your aunt her pink hair looks fine is a small falsehood, while lying about your grades on a college application is a pretty big falsehood. The Latin root is falsus, "deceived or erroneous." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]虚伪性;虚假性;谬误 Falsehood is the quality or fact of being untrue or of being a lie.
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]谎言 A falsehood is a lie. [FORMAL 正式]
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