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单词 truism
释义
truism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtruː.ɪ.zəm/us
/ˈtruː.ɪ.zəm/
astatementthat is soobviouslytruethat it isalmostnotworthsaying:
自明之理，不言而喻的话
Asfarashealthisconcerned, it's a truism thatpreventionisbetterthancure.就健康而言，预防胜于治疗，这是不言而喻的。
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(Definition oftruismfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

truism| American Dictionary

truism
noun[C]
us
/ˈtru·ɪz·əm/
astatementthat is soobviousor said so often thatitstruthis notquestioned:
It’s a truism thatpreventingdiseaseis muchbetterthancuringit.
(Definition oftruismfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftruism

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This theme rests on atruism: that, fundamentally, we live our lives together in work, in love, in politics.
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It is atruismin technological circles to state that we live in an age of convergence.
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It is by now a philosophicaltruismthat true belief does not amount to knowledge.
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Such a social history may be more attuned to the relationship between knowledge and power, yet this too is atruismthat eludes precise description.
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In detail, the result seems to a modern observer to come from a parallel universe in which all the conventional truisms are reversed.
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This emphasises thetruismthat caring for two dependants at the same time puts extra demands on the carer.
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This view was almost atruismof the times.
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All the more forcibly, therefore, she makes obvious the benefits of an approach that can dismantle easy truisms.
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Medieval merchants marvelled in much money + a universaltruism.
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Here thetruismapplies that what is legal is not necessarily ethical.
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And if the morality of right- and wrongdoing does not exhaust morality, the claim that rightness is law's first virtue is atruism.
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In this careful empirical study she has refuted some of the most negative truisms repeated about endowments.
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A third broad perspective has certainly not become atruismamong psychologists.
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His book is testament to thetruismthat great research is the prerequisite for great historical writing.
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That there are winners in the process of economic development is atruism.
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