| 单词 | the naked truth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe naked truth b. the naked truth [compare classical Latin nūda vēritās, Horace Odes 1. 24. 7] : the plain truth, without concealment or addition; cf. sense A. 19b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [noun] > the plain truth the naked truth1436 the plainness1477 the even of ita1616 even downa1679 fact1680 1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 502/1 If..ye naked trouth sholde be effectuelly founden, hit sholde cause sesyng of gret part of the commune perjurie. 1568 in J. Anderson Coll. Mary Queen of Scotl. (1728) IV. ii. 120 We are compellit for justifying of our cause to manifest the nakit trewth. 1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1141 I..truely told the naked trueth To men that meld with me. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 74 We shall tell The naked Truth of what befell. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §120. 138 It is scarce possible to deliver the naked and precise Truth. 1785 L. MacNally Fashionable Levities iv. ii. 48 Sir, that is the naked truth. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xiv. 181 I have not deviated in the slightest degree from the strict and naked truth. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 242 An unmarried woman was a chattel... That is the naked truth. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. iv. 142 Here we have the naked truth from the mouth of that child. 1987 R. Lomas Limits of Interpr. iii. 27 Can either of the participants bear the naked truth or do they collude and agree upon a mutually acceptable formula? 1995 Afr. Amer. Rev. 29 651/1 Instances of radical revelation expose the text's simultaneous claim to utter falsity and the naked truth. < as lemmas |
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