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

单词	truth
释义	truth \ˈtrüth\ noun (plural truths \-üthz also -üths\) Etymology: Middle English trewthe, treuthe, from Old English trēowth, trīewth; akin to Old High German getriuwida fidelity, Old Norse tryggth faith, trustiness; derivative from the root of English true (I) 1. a. archaic : the quality or state of being faithful : fidelity, constancy < whispering tongues can poison truth — S.T.Coleridge > b. : sincerity in character, action, and speech : genuineness in expressing feeling or belief : truthfulness, honesty < gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them — J.H.Newman > < the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behavior — R.W.Emerson > 2. : something that is true or held to be true: as a. (1) : the real state of affairs : something that is the case : fact < the hard truth was that few of America's allies believed that the … islands were worth fighting for — Newsweek > < the present definition of insanity has little relation to the truths of mental life — B.N.Cardozo > (2) : the body of things, events, and facts that make up the universe : actual existence : actuality < the facets of reality … together comprising what the human spirit can call truth — General Education in a Free Society > (3) often capitalized : a fundamental or spiritual reality conceived of as being partly or wholly transcendent of perceived actuality and experience < modern man … was capable of the relative and changing truths of science, incapable and afraid of any supratemporal truth reached by Reason's metaphysical effort or of the divine — Jacques Maritain > < got only the facts and not the truth — W.A.White > (4) : the world of a particular person or in a particular manner < a psychotic's truth is what “I” make it — Weston La Barre > < the truth of speculative inquiry had been replaced by the truth of empirical investigation — R.M.Weaver > b. (1) : a true relation or account < to say truth, it can only be regarded as a kind of literary curiosity — Daniel George > < truth is stranger than fiction > (2) : a judgment, proposition, statement, or idea that accords with fact or reality, is logically or intuitively necessary, or follows by sound reasoning from established or necessary truths < two plus two equals four … that is a truth anywhere — W.J.Reilly > < there are truths which cannot be verified, yet we cannot help accepting them as true — Rubin Gotesky > specifically : a proposition or statement taken as an axiom, postulate, or principle in a field of study or inquiry < questioned the basic truths of thermodynamics > (3) : truism, platitude < a truth we are in danger of forgetting — Marie Hildegarde > (4) : a notion having wide and uncritical acceptance among a group or in a field and liable to be proved false < worshipped their flimsy hypotheses into truths — Weston La Barre > c. : the body of true statements and propositions; also : the body of statements and propositions accepted, studied, or proved in a field < seems to suggest that these are different and unrelated truths — theological truth, psychotherapeutic truth, political truth — R.L.Howe > < every way of abstracting produces its own kind of truth — S.I.Hayakawa > 3. a. : relationship, conformity, or agreement with fact or reality or among true facts or propositions : the property in a conception, judgment, statement, proposition, belief, or opinion of being in accord with what is in fact or in necessity < truth (or falsity) is a property of declarative sentences — Philip Hallie > < the test for truth is objective and is not concerned with ministering to subjective feelings, needs, or desires — Jim Cork > — see coherence theory, correspondence theory, empirical truth, formal truth, metaphysical truth, normative truth, pragmatism, semantic conception b. chiefly Britain : true 2 < these squares must be tested for truth — Laurence Town > < her propeller shaft was a trifle out of truth — C.S.Forester > c. (1) : fidelity to an original or a possible original < an ignorant, uneducated man may be a competent judge of the truth of the representation of a sandal — Joshua Reynolds > < ability to build up the truth of his characters through spare, pungent dialogue — Arthur Knight > (2) : the conformity of a work of art to the essential significance of the subject, to the artist's conception or intent, or to some standard : the coherence of form and content in an apparently necessary whole < what the imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth — whether it existed before or not — John Keats > < a sturdy example of functional truth in architecture — American Guide Series: Vermont > 4. a. often capitalized : abstract truth personified as a goddess b. capitalized, Christian Science : god Synonyms: veracity, verity, verisimilitude: truth is a general term ranging in meaning from a transcendent idea to an indication of conformity with fact and of avoidance of error, misrepresentation, or falsehood < the truths of religion are more like the truths of poetry than like the truths of science; that is, they are vision and insight, apprehended by the whole man, and not merely by the analysing mind — Times Literary Supplement > < truth as the opposite of error and of falsehood — C.W.Eliot > veracity commonly indicates rigid and unfailing adherence to, observance of, or respect for truth < question an opponent's veracity > < his passion for veracity always kept him from taking any unfair rhetorical advantages of an opponent — Aldous Huxley > < I cannot, indeed, guarantee the absolute veracity of any of my apparently authentic law reports — J.R.Sutherland > verity usually designates the quality of a state or thing in being true or entirely in accordance with factual reality or with what should be so regarded; sometimes the word designates that which is marked by lasting, ultimate, transcendent value < most primitive and national religions have also started out, naturally enough, with the assumption of their own verity and importance — A.L.Kroeber > < the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice — William Faulkner > verisimilitude usually indicates the quality of a representation that causes one to accept it as true < to convey human nature in fiction requires the highest degree of verisimilitude: events that seem just like those of life as the reader's experience has led him to conceive of life must happen to people who seem just like human beings in a succession which seems just like the course of human affairs — E.K.Brown > • - in truth
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