half truth / ˈhæfˌtruθ, ˈhɑf- /

半真半假一半的真相半个事实一半事实

half truth 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural half-truths [haf-troothz, hahf-]. /ˈhæfˌtruðz, ˈhɑf-/.

  1. a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
  2. a statement that fails to divulge the whole truth.

half truth 近义词

half truth

等同于 white lie

half truth

等同于 falsehood

half truth

等同于 generality

更多half truth例句

  1. Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
  2. The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
  3. Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
  4. The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
  5. My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
  6. And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
  7. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  8. It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
  9. A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
  10. Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."