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

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。
All finite things involve an untruth: they have a notion and an existence, but their existence does not meet the requirements of the notion.
但一切有限事物，自在地都具有一种不真实性，因为凡物莫不有其概念，有其存在，而其存在总不能与概念相符合。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Now as I often said, a truth that is not your truth is still untruth.
我经常说，在一个真理成为你自己的真理之前，它还不是真理。
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。
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）。
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。