英语词汇“to ring false”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. intransitive. figurative. With adverbial complement: to impress as having a certain character; to convey a specified impression or inherent quality. Esp. in to ring hollow, to ring true, to ring false.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > be or remain valid [verb (intransitive)]

standOE

holdc1315

to hold out water1598

to run on all fours1617

hold water1622

to pass for (later as) sterling1641

ring1857

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. K3^v But Crassus, and this Cæsar here ring hollow .

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VI. vi. 246 The words rung hollow on Rosa's ear, but did not prevent her exonerating herself from the implied accusation.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 48 But there was something under all this which rung false and hollow.

1857 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 251 Hafiz and old Omar Khayyám ring like true Metal.

1900 G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 227 His [sc. Bright's] best orations were superior to Gladstone's as compositions and rang truer on a critical ear.

1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 38 This anecdote does not ring true to the character of either cowboys or the bad men of the range.

1972 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xxvii. 50 Well I mean a lot of these things that are happening, well they just don't quite ring true.

1989 W. D. Irvine Boulanger Affair Reconsidered i. 30 Republican rhetoric about liberty rang hollow to conservatives.

2006 J. Hart King of Lies (2007) xxxv. 360 They all said the same things, and they all rang false with me.

单词	to ring false
释义	> as lemmas to ring false b. intransitive. figurative. With adverbial complement: to impress as having a certain character; to convey a specified impression or inherent quality. Esp. in to ring hollow, to ring true, to ring false. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > be or remain valid [verb (intransitive)] standOE holdc1315 to hold out water1598 to run on all fours1617 hold water1622 to pass for (later as) sterling1641 ring1857 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. K3^v But Crassus, and this Cæsar here ring hollow . View more context for this quotation 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VI. vi. 246 The words rung hollow on Rosa's ear, but did not prevent her exonerating herself from the implied accusation. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 48 But there was something under all this which rung false and hollow. 1857 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 251 Hafiz and old Omar Khayyám ring like true Metal. 1900 G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 227 His [sc. Bright's] best orations were superior to Gladstone's as compositions and rang truer on a critical ear. 1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 38 This anecdote does not ring true to the character of either cowboys or the bad men of the range. 1972 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xxvii. 50 Well I mean a lot of these things that are happening, well they just don't quite ring true. 1989 W. D. Irvine Boulanger Affair Reconsidered i. 30 Republican rhetoric about liberty rang hollow to conservatives. 2006 J. Hart King of Lies (2007) xxxv. 360 They all said the same things, and they all rang false with me. extracted from ringv.¹ < as lemmas
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