Falsehood
['fɔːlshʊd;'fɒls-] or ['fɔlshʊd]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
(n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
(n.) Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
(n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
編輯:沃伦
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Falsity, want of truth, inconformity to fact or truth.[2]. Untruth, lie, fib, fabrication, fiction, false assertion.[3]. Imposture, counterfeit, cheat.
校對:利昂
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Untruth, error, fallacy, sophistry, deception, forgery, lie, cheat
ANT:Truth, correctness, verity, fact, authenticity, genuineness, honesty, honor,reality
整理:露丝
例句/造句/用法:
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- If you ever say less than this, you will be guilty of deliberate falsehood to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You're a falsehood, Mr. Giles,' said Brittles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion--expose my falsehood as soon as you like. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- How dare you tell me a falsehood? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This sounded so like a falsehood, that the old gentleman looked somewhat sternly in Oliver's face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Falsehood and artifice are in themselves so hateful, that, though I still thought I did right, a feeling of shame and guilt came painfully upon me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- But I happen to know the story to which you allude; and I also know that a viler falsehood than that story never was told. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The tainting blood of falsehood runs through us all. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- But, after having let herself be surprised in a falsehood, it was doubly stupid to snub the witness of her discomfiture. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Is there a motive of shame at the bottom of all the falsehood, this time? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Falsehoods and illusions ascend to take their place; the prodigal goes back into the country of the Lotophagi or drones, and openly dwells there. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She never came into a family but she strove to bring misery with her and to weaken the most sacred affections with her wicked flattery and falsehoods. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- With vicious relish he brought up the most spicy current continental historical falsehoods--than which nothing can be conceived more offensive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I then told Meyler by what falsehoods Mildmay had induced me to accept his protection. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
編輯:瑞伊