| 单词 | true to life |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrue to life b. true to life: (of a work of art, fictional character, etc.) devised in accordance with reality; realistic; believable. ΚΠ 1782 Beauties of Admin. 22 True to life each portrait shall be drawn, No part be screen'd by flatt'ry. 1795 J. Haslewood Secret Hist. Green-room (new ed.) I. 122 In Comedy an easy grace he shews, And, true to life, with manly freedom glows. 1835 Athenæum 16 May 372/1 Another character—true to life—is Mrs. Hollis, the fruiterer. 1872 J. M. Langford Let. 11 Mar. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 254 One feels them all to be true to life. 1901 F. Norris in Boston Evening Transcript 6 Nov. 20/6 You lay your finger upon a certain passage and say ‘Not true to life’. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 66/3 (advt.) Many colored plates of fowls true to life. 2012 Atlantic May 89/1 The novel's Westish College..was never meant to be true to life. < as lemmas |
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