home truth

英 [ˌhəʊm ˈtruːθ]

美 [ˌhoʊm ˈtruːθ]

n.  使人不愉快的事实(通常由别人告知); (关于某人的)大实话

牛津词典

noun

• 使人不愉快的事实（通常由别人告知）；（关于某人的）大实话
  a true but unpleasant fact about a person, usually told to them by sb else
  1. It's time you told him a few home truths.
     现在你该给他讲点实话了。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （通常由别人告知的关于自己的）不愉快的事实，逆耳之言
  Home truthsare unpleasant facts that you learn about yourself, usually from someone else.
  1. We held a team meeting and a few home truths were spelled out.
     我们开了一个队内会议，互相说了些不中听的话。

英英释义

noun

• an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)

双语例句

• When he arrives home from school that day, he says to his mother," I know the whole truth. "
  那天放学回家，他对他的妈妈说：“我知道所有的真相。”
• We held a team meeting and a few home truths were spelled out.
  我们开了一个队内会议，互相说了些不中听的话。
• We were walking quickly because she just wanted to get home ( and so did I, truth be told).
  我们走得很快，因为她一心想快点到家（事实上我也是）。
• Catherine Linton ( the very name warms me), my bonnie lass, I shall be from home all this week; go and see if I have not spoken truth: do, there's a darling!
  凯瑟琳·林惇（就是这名字都使我感到温暖），我的好姑娘，今后这一个礼拜我都不在家；去瞧瞧我是不是说实话吧：去吧，那才是乖宝贝儿！
• No one allowed Truth to enter a home and everyone who encountered Truth ran away in fright.
  没有人愿意让真理进到他们家里，甚至每一个碰到他的人，都会落荒而逃。
• This will help drive home the meaning of the new words. A witness in court is obligated to tell the truth.
  这有助于把这些生词的意义讲清楚。证人在法庭上有义务讲清事实真象。
• Lucille's home was very grandly called a chateau, though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm.
  露西尔的家美其名曰城堡，事实上不过是一座壕沟环绕的大农场。
• He observes this home budgeting truth that "there is no typical month" to be a lot like agile development and our use of velocity
  他注意到家庭预算的事实那就是“没有具有代表性的月份”与敏捷开发以及我们使用的生产率非常相似
• "Oh," cried scarlett, fresh pain striking her as gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
  “啊！”思嘉叫起来，由于杰拉尔德的话把事实的不可避免性说到家了，她心中产生了新的痛苦。
• Their implosion, after years of rapid expansion abroad, rammed home the unpleasant truth that banks may be global in life but are national in death.
  在经历了为期数年的急速海外扩张后，这些银行在一夜之间轰然倒塌，猛然揭示了令人不安的事实：银行可以作为全球企业存在，但只能作为民族企业消亡。