英语词汇“in one's true light”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. in one's (also its) true light: as someone or something really is, esp. rather than how he, she, or it typically appears to be. Cf. to show one's true colours at colour n.¹ Phrases 5a.

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1705 Boston News-let. 5–12 Nov. 2/2 Our News-Letter also, will, I hope sufficiently preserve its Reputation, if any Paragraph of it, not setting a thing in all its true light, shall in one weeks time supply all that is defective.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 373 When the war came on, the leaders of mobs, and the mobs which they created, appeared in their true light: The former sunk into contempt, and the latter were soon suppressed.

1858 Varium 120 I believe at that moment, whatever he did afterwards, he saw her in her true light, and knew her for what she was, good and bad.

1920 Bot. Gaz. 69 37 Most of the growth is strictly limited to the top at this age, but later ages show the maple in its true light as more typically a deliquescent tree.

2018 Daily Star (Nexis) 3 Mar. 36 It sounds as if you're finally seeing your..partner in his true light. Far from caring about your feelings or your limits, he's more focused on cars and meals than your mental health.

单词	in one's true light
释义	> as lemmas in one's (also its) true light c. in one's (also its) true light: as someone or something really is, esp. rather than how he, she, or it typically appears to be. Cf. to show one's true colours at colour n.¹ Phrases 5a. ΚΠ 1705 Boston News-let. 5–12 Nov. 2/2 Our News-Letter also, will, I hope sufficiently preserve its Reputation, if any Paragraph of it, not setting a thing in all its true light, shall in one weeks time supply all that is defective. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 373 When the war came on, the leaders of mobs, and the mobs which they created, appeared in their true light: The former sunk into contempt, and the latter were soon suppressed. 1858 Varium 120 I believe at that moment, whatever he did afterwards, he saw her in her true light, and knew her for what she was, good and bad. 1920 Bot. Gaz. 69 37 Most of the growth is strictly limited to the top at this age, but later ages show the maple in its true light as more typically a deliquescent tree. 2018 Daily Star (Nexis) 3 Mar. 36 It sounds as if you're finally seeing your..partner in his true light. Far from caring about your feelings or your limits, he's more focused on cars and meals than your mental health. extracted from lightn.¹ < as lemmas
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