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home truth

家庭真相,家的真相,家的真理,家里的真相

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an indisputable fact or basic truth, especially one whose accuracy may cause discomfort or embarrassment.

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Examples

  • I’ve learned a lot of blistering home truths about myself along the way.

  • That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.

  • So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.

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

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

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

  • 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 was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.

  • We are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.

  • In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.