untruth

英 [ˌʌnˈtruːθ]

美 [ˌʌnˈtruːθ]

n.  (lie的委婉说法)妄语，诳语，假话; 虚伪; 虚假; 不真实

复数：untruths　

TEM8

BNC.23877 / COCA.24148

牛津词典

noun

• （lie的委婉说法）妄语，诳语，假话
  a lie. People often say untruth to avoid saying lie .
• 虚伪；虚假；不真实
  the state of being false

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 诳语；谎言；假话
  Anuntruthis a lie.
  1. The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths...
     广告标准管理局控告房地产代理商使用无耻的谎言。
  2. I have never uttered one word of untruth.
     我从未说过一句假话。

英英释义

noun

• a false statement
  Synonym:falsehoodfalsity

双语例句

• Now as I often said, a truth that is not your truth is still untruth.
  我经常说，在一个真理成为你自己的真理之前，它还不是真理。
• This flagrant untruth reverberated so pleasantly between my ribs that I almost said it again.
  这句冠冕堂皇的谎言在我的肋骨间回荡，令我感到舒适无比，我几乎又把它说了一遍。
• On the other hand, there is surely such a thing as untruth.
  另一方面，慌言这种东西肯定是存在的。
• The applicant should undertake the law responsibility that result from providing untruth sample and untruth information.
  由于客户提供的样品及其信息不真实而导致的一切后均由客户负责。
• I see it as purely benevolent, for I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the middle of darkness light persists.
  我认为这是纯粹的仁慈，因为我可以看到，在一片死亡的生命存在，在一片谎言真理仍然存在，在黑暗中轻存在。
• He never told an untruth in his life.
  他有生以来从来没有说过一句假话。
• When we say that beauty is everywhere we do not mean that the word ugliness should be abolished from our language, just as it would be absurd to say that there is no such thing as untruth.
  正如说“世上没有谎言”是荒唐的一样，当我们说美无处不在时，并不是指就不应该再提丑陋了。
• "That is different," replied Monte Cristo;" but if you intend to tell an untruth, reflect it were better not to speak at all."
  “那情况不同了，”基督山回答说。“但你要想清楚，假如你想撒谎，还不如不讲为妙。”
• The untruth of this statement was immediately clear to me.
  这份声明的虚假性我立刻就明白了。
• There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
  有真理，就有非真理，如果你坚持真理；哪怕全世界都不同意你，你也没有发疯。