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half-truth

/haf-trooth, hahf-/US // ˈhæfˌtruθ, ˈhɑf- //

半真半假,半真相,半真理,半真实

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

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

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

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Examples

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

  • The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.

  • 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.

  • And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

  • 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.

  • It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."