half-truth

/haf-trooth, hahf-/US // ˈhæfˌtruθ, ˈhɑf- //

半真半假,半真相,半真理,半真实

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural half-truths [haf-troothz, hahf-]. /ˈhæfˌtruðz, ˈhɑf-/.
- : a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
- : a statement that fails to divulge the whole truth.

as inwhite lie

Forms: half-truths

Synonyms

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

/haf-trooth, hahf-/US // ˈhæfˌtruθ, ˈhɑf- //

半真半假,半真相,半真理,半真实

n.名词 noun

1
plural half-truths [haf-troothz, hahf-]. /ˈhæfˌtruðz, ˈhɑf-/.
- : a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
- : a statement that fails to divulge the whole truth.

as inwhite lie

Forms: half-truths

Synonyms

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."