| 词组 | truth |
| 释义 | truth /truːθ/ noun the true facts about something, rather than something untrue, imagined, or guessedverbs + truthtell (sb) the truth How do we know you’re telling us the truth? | If you tell the truth, you will not be punished. Don’t say say the truth. speak the truth literary He always spoke the truth, whether it was popular or not.know the truth At last I knew the truth about my parents.find out/discover/uncover the truth She was determined to find out the truth, whatever it took.learn the truth When she learns the truth, she may decide to help us.get at/get to the truth informal (=discover the truth) The police will eventually get to the truth of the matter.search for/seek the truth Claire’s father spent years searching for the truth about her death.reveal the truth She’d promised never to reveal the truth to anyone.accept/admit the truth Our pride stopped us from admitting the truth.conceal/hide the truth They tried to conceal the truth from their children.bend/distort/stretch the truth (=say or write something that is not completely true) He has been known to bend the truth when it suits him.truth + verbsthe truth emerges/comes out (=is discovered after being hidden) When the truth finally emerged, he was forced to resign.the truth dawns (on sb) informal (=someone realizes the truth) It was a shock when the truth finally dawned: he was not who he claimed to be.adjectives/nouns + truththe whole/full truth People only found out the full truth later. | Investors should have been told the whole truth about the company.the simple/plain truth The simple truth is that there isn’t enough money to pay for it.the naked/unvarnished truth (=without attempting to hide anything or make something sound better) The book claims to tell the unvarnished truth about the war.the sad/painful truth (=something that is true but that you regret) The sad truth is that she still misses him.the awful/terrible/dreadful truth She could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth.the honest truth (=used to emphasize that you are telling the truth) We didn’t come here to steal anything, and that’s the honest truth.the gospel truth (=something that is completely true in every way, so that you can depend on it completely) Don’t take everything she says as the gospel truth.phrasesget the truth out of sb (=make someone tell you the truth) I’ll get the truth out of her, whatever it takes!the truth of the matter The truth of the matter is that we don’t know what really happened.sth has the ring of truth (about it) (=it seems true) His account of what happened had the ring of truth about it.there is an element of truth in sth (=some of it is true) There’s an element of truth in what you say, but it’s a little too simplistic.there is a grain/kernel/shred of truth (=a very small amount of it is true) There isn’t a grain of truth in these allegations.be/come close to the truth (=tell the truth, especially when someone does not want this) The company tried to have the book banned because it came a little too close to the truth.prepositionsthe truth about sb/sth If you don’t tell me the truth about what happened, I’m going to tell your father about this.the truth behind sth The truth behind his death may never be known.the truth of sth She kept the truth of her father’s disappearance a secret all her life. |
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