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n. 事实, 实情

[法] 真实, 真相, 事实




    truth
    [ noun ]
    1. a fact that has been verified

    2. <noun.cognition>
      at last he knew the truth
      the truth is that he didn't want to do it
    3. conformity to reality or actuality

    4. <noun.state>
      they debated the truth of the proposition
      the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat
      he was famous for the truth of his portraits
      he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities
    5. a true statement

    6. <noun.communication>
      he told the truth
      he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it
    7. the quality of being near to the true value

    8. <noun.attribute>
      he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
      the lawyer questioned the truth of my account
    9. United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

    10. <noun.person>


    Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. {Truths}. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe,
    AS. tre['o]w?. See {True}; cf. {Troth}, {Betroth}.]
    1. The quality or being true; as:
    (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with
    that which is, or has been; or shall be.
    (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence
    with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the
    like.

    Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of
    the ironwork. --Mortimer.
    (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

    Alas! they had been friends in youth,
    But whispering tongues can poison truth.
    --Coleridge.
    (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from
    falsehood; veracity.

    If this will not suffice, it must appear
    That malice bears down truth. --Shak.

    2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or
    subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of
    things; fact; verity; reality.

    Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.
    --Zech. viii.
    16.

    I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak.

    The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a
    legitimate deduction from all the facts which are
    truly material. --Coleridge.

    3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or
    proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the
    like; as, the great truths of morals.

    Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2
    Cor. vii. 14.

    4. Righteousness; true religion.

    Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17.

    Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
    --John xvii.
    17.

    {In truth}, in reality; in fact.

    {Of a truth}, in reality; certainly.

    {To do truth}, to practice what God commands.

    He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii.
    21.


    Truth \Truth\, v. t.
    To assert as true; to declare. [R.]

    Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have
    truthed it heaven. --Ford.

    1. There is some truth to this.
    2. During my many years in corporate America, I saw the truth behind the workaholic charade too many times to accept it on face value.
    3. It is not an instance of the elusiveness or reshaping of truth: The circumstantial evidence does damn the professor.
    4. The State Department said Thursday that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was not telling the truth when he asserted that he has halted support for international terrorist activities.
    5. The truth is that, in constant dollars, foreign-assistance requests increased less than 2% a year since 1980.
    6. Learn to love truth.
    7. Truth is truth." The five top U.S. military chaplains are presently all pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
    8. In turn this gave renewed impetus to the efforts of Mr Gonzalez' Banking Committee to establish the truth. The call for management changes at BNL also focused attention on the issue of BNL's under capitalisation.
    9. The truth, he said, is that the breed is alive, well and multiplying.
    10. The bill also condemned China's efforts to conceal the truth of what happened, including clandestine disposal of bodies and suppression of news reports.
    11. "I want this government to tell the truth," he said.
    12. "We bet on a second semester of growth, invested in computerization and ground personnel, and the truth is that the growth didn't happen," says Sergio Figueiredo Jardim, VASP's director of route and schedule planning.
    13. The official Tass news agency, in a commentary, said Gorbachev would face a "moment of truth" when he speaks to lawmakers on the crumbling economy and on campaigns by separatist-minded republics.
    14. In truth, it was not even a runner.
    15. Attorney General Corbin says he is looking into the bribery allegation, but adds that that doesn't necessarily imply that he believes there is any truth to the charge.
    16. "Man is not made for slavery; that truth is perhaps even better proved by the master than by the slave," he wrote almost 30 years before Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
    17. "We don't have a wish of revenge, but of truth and justice," he said Friday.
    18. Frost replied in a supremely cynical moment of truth: 'John Birt.'
    19. One of the soldiers "was not telling the truth," Meir said.
    20. The Polish publisher had struggled for 12 years in the underground to provide books to an audience hungry for the truth.
    21. "'At some point we have to tell people the truth, you know.'
    22. One, for instance, is never to attribute responsibility for anything to anyone, without testing the truth of that attribution by asking other people, including the person concerned. He readily admits that the task isn't easy.
    23. But the judicial experiment of suppressing the truth has turned out to be disastrous overreaching.
    24. A joint Soviet-Polish investigation into the killings has not been completed and the "final truth" about responsibility is still to be determined, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov.
    25. The truth could be a bit more complicated. Direct Line currently absorbs only Pounds 155m of Royal Bank's capital, which is small in relation to shareholders' funds of Pounds 1.95bn.
    26. But it came to pass for a while in diverse places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light.
    27. Ladies and gentlemen, I think if you examine American foreign policy throughout the postwar era, one truth certainly shines through.
    28. A conservative Washington-based GOP group, Citizens for Reagan, filed a new complaint with the Federal Election Commission as the convention began, and a Republican "truth squad" hit Wright at a news conference in the convention city.
    29. Brokerage houses may chatter about the advantages of long-term investing in the stock market, but the truth is that the more long-term investors a brokerage house has on its books, the less money it (and the broker) makes.
    30. Seek guidance and where appropriate confirmation from a higher authority before acting. Honesty: This goes beyond simply telling the truth to ensuring that any misrepresentation is quickly corrected.
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