名词

1. 实情;真相;事实
The truth about something is all the facts about it, rather than things that are imagined or invented.

2. 真实性;真实
If you say that there is some truth in a statement or story, you mean that it is true, or at least partly true.

3. 真理
A truth is something that is believed to be true.

4. see also: home truth;moment of truth

5. 实际上;事实上
You say in truth in order to indicate that you are giving your honest opinion about something.

6. 说实在的;坦白说
You say to tell you the truth or truth to tell in order to indicate that you are telling someone something in an open and honest way, without trying to hide anything.

1. the quality of being near to the true value

e.g. he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
the lawyer questioned the truth of my account

Synonym: accuracy

2. a fact that has been verified

e.g. at last he knew the truth
the truth is that he didn't want to do it

3. a true statement

e.g. he told the truth
he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it

Synonym: true statement

4. conformity to reality or actuality

e.g. 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

Synonym: the trueveritytrueness