| 单词 | half-truth |
| 释义 | half-truth noun[C] uk/ˈhɑːf.truːθ/us/ˈhæf.truːθ/astatementthat isintendedtodeceiveby being onlypartlytrue 半真半假的话，真伪混杂的陈述Lies, lying & hypocrisy
half-truth| American Dictionaryhalf-truth noun[C] us/ˈhæfˈtruθ/astatementthat isintendedtodeceivesomeone bytellingonlypartof thetruth Examplesofhalf-truthhalf-truth The assertion that the sources are lacking to tell the history of ' common people ' is ahalf-truthat best (p. xix). From theCambridge English Corpus In the scientists' case, hedges turn up often in contexts of popularization, where the author knows that the audience only needs the 'half-truth'. From theCambridge English Corpus This is an importanthalf-truth. From theCambridge English Corpus I should not like to reconsider my answer—namely, that while there is an independent sector of education the commitment to selection is only ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I want us to agree that this is only ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always thought that to be ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that that is only ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That was ahalf-truth, and ahalf-truthis sometimes the greatest untruth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not have to fight a lie but ahalf-truth. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English That is one of those statements which is all the more false because it is ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a truth, but only ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the statement that there were no complaints was definitely ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It was, in fact, half a truth, and we all know what ahalf-truthcan be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been urged from the other side that these schemes are non-compulsory, but, surely, that is only ahalf-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 One judgment included the statement that "the shrewd use of exaggeration, innuendo, ambiguity andhalf-truthis more efficacious from the advertiser's standpoint than factual assertions". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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