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
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.- 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。 - I have never uttered one word of untruth.
我从未说过一句假话。
- The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths...
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- 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。 - A "white lie" is a harmless untruth, while "white magic" is good magic.
“小谎”是无恶意的谎言，而“乞灵于天使的白法术”是好戏法。 - 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。 - 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。 - That is why I disguise them in untruth, saying the contrary of what I mean.
那就是为何我假装那是假话，心口不一。 - 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。 - 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 is truth, and there is untruth.
那是真理，而那是谎言。 - 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）。 - 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。