| 释义 |
unfact|ˈʌn-, older -ˈfækt|
[un-1 12.]
a. An untruth; a fictitious or mistaken statement.
1887North Star 3 Dec., The astounding statement..was an unfact. 1890Cath. News 4 Oct. 6/4 We will call this an evangelical unfact.
b. Pol. A fact which is officially denied or disregarded.
1954[see unperson]. 1959Economist 8 Aug. 329/1 A government founded on the principle of treating as an unfact that bitter sequence of miscalculated events for which its leading members bore..responsibility. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 379 Already, under the pressure of different truths, of ‘un-facts’ and history rewritten, the East German language is developing its own jargon and dialect. |