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

• "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。”
• 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。
• If an employer discovers it has taken on a trade union activist or a pregnant woman despite being told otherwise in interview, that untruth is unlikely to convince a tribunal that a sacking is fair.
  如果雇主发现自己雇用的是一个工会维权人士或一个怀孕妇女，尽管在面试中，雇主听到的是另一番情况，但是，雇员没说实话也不能让法院认定解雇是公平的。
• He never told an untruth in his life.
  他有生以来从来没有说过一句假话。
• Gossip ( usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.
  口头传播的闲话（通常有真实的也有不真实的）。
• It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
  “喜欢孤独的人不是野兽便是神灵”。说这话的人若要在寥寥数语之中，更能把真理和邪说放在一处，那就很难了。
• 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。
• 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。
• But it is always hard to convince men and women of the truth when they have been convinced of an untruth by a person who is dogmatic in their way of speaking.
  当人们已听信有人将谎言当作真理，以他们接受的方式传讲给他们，要说服他们接受真理，终非易事。
• 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。