truthの意味・使い方・発音

truth

英 [truːθ] 美 [trʊθ]

真実、事実、真実

true、real、-th、名詞接尾辞から。

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truth (n.): Old English triewe (West Saxon), treowe (Mercian) "faith, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty; veracity, quality of being true; pledge, covenant," from triewe, treowe "faithful" (see true (adj.)), with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).

Sense of "something that is true" is first recorded mid-14c. Meaning "accuracy, correctness" is from 1560s. English and most other IE languages do not have a primary verb for for "speak the truth," as a contrast to lie (v.). Truth squad in U.S. political sense first attested in the 1952 U.S. presidential election campaign.
At midweek the Republican campaign was bolstered by an innovation--the "truth squad" ..., a team of senators who trailed whistle-stopping Harry Truman to field what they denounced as his wild pitches. ["Life," Oct. 13, 1952]

Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. [Milton, "Areopagitica," 1644]

1. He told some lies and sometimes just embroidered the truth .: 彼はいくつかの嘘をついて、時には事実に酢を加えただけだ。

2.She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.: 彼女はこの判決を真理対誤謬の勝利と呼んだ。

3.They can 't destroy truth without destroying each and every one of us.: 彼らが私たちを追い払わない限り、真理は消えない。

4.We want to get at the truth .Who killed him？And why？: 真相を明らかにしたい。誰が彼を殺したのですか。なぜですか。