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

• He never told an untruth in his life.
  他有生以来从来没有说过一句假话。
• 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。
• She wasn't very convinced about the nice distinction between a lie and the untruth.
  对于谎言和不诚实之间的细微差别，她还不十分确信。
• There was truth and there was untruth.
  存在真理，亦存在谬误。
• 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。
• As the riots spread across London and the rest of the country over the last few days, Twitter has been awash with rumour, exaggeration and downright untruth alongside people spreading useful news.
  在前几日横扫伦敦和英国大部地区的骚乱发生时，围脖上在传播有用的新闻的同时，也在传播着夸大的传言和十足的谣言。
• 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。”
• All finite things involve an untruth: they have a notion and an existence, but their existence does not meet the requirements of the notion.
  但一切有限事物，自在地都具有一种不真实性，因为凡物莫不有其概念，有其存在，而其存在总不能与概念相符合。
• 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。