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。
• He never told an untruth in his life.
  他有生以来从来没有说过一句假话。
• I have never uttered one word of untruth.
  我从未说过一句假话。
• There was truth and there was untruth.
  存在真理，亦存在谬误。
• 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。
• The untruth has been brought home to him.
  对那谎言他已深信不疑。
• You can, therefore, nail any talk about sending armies to Europe as deliberate untruth.
  所以，你们大可把任何关于出兵欧洲的传说斥为故意造谣。
• Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.
  曲面镜不是用来产生真实影像，而是用来产生幻影的流行器件。
• 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。