| 单词 | true |
| 释义 | true I. 1. a. < his musical idiom was unique, and by remaining true to it, he expressed himself with the utmost clarity — J.D.Cook > < all true men were needed to save the country — Shelby Foote > specifically < a lover absolutely true in act and word and thought — H.O.Taylor > b. < he was absolutely true, genuinely square in his relations to those about him — W.A.White > c. archaic < dare to be true; nothing can need a lie — George Herbert > 2. a. (1) < mathematics, I thought, had a better chance of being true than anything else that passed as general knowledge — Bertrand Russell > < it is true that there is an underlying intention to keep patronage alive — Herbert Read > (2) < fiction is truer than history, because it goes beyond the evidence — E.M.Forster > specifically < a true story > b. (1) < nobler ideas — truer because they are more in harmony with man's situation in the universe — Liston Pope > < the same event can be said to be true for faith but untrue for science — W.R.Inge > < appropriate to the inward search and responsive to true values — Pietro Belluschi > (2) < the party's principles and policies, rather than its actual social composition, should be the criterion of its true nature — N.D.Palmer & South CarolinaLeng > < a better understanding of the true motives in human behavior — Printers' Ink > c. < the true dimension of the world refugee problem is clearly being ignored or sidestepped — Gertrude Samuels > < sent her back to bed without telling her the president's true condition — Time > d. (1) < remains true to its background of cattle barons — American Guide Series: Texas > (2) < the lawyer's premonition was true — Leo Marx > 3. a. (1) < true love > (2) < returned to the true faith > < expect to make true and rapid progress in civil rights — D.D.Eisenhower > (3) < the true coastline was … 140 kilometers from the apparent coastline — Valter Schytt > < the true stomach, the abomasum, forms only about one seventh to one tenth of the total capacity of the ruminant stomach — S.J.Watson > (4) < none of these institutions could be regarded as a true university because none had a faculty capable of examining for the higher degrees — J.B.Conant > < a true textbook is one especially prepared for the use of pupil and teacher — Textbooks in Education > b. (1) < a lizard is a true reptile > < a whale is a true but not a typical mammal > (2) < the true cats may be distinguished from fossil allies by characters of the dentition > 4. a. < facts presented in their true order and bearing > b. (1) < the true and legal successors of the old régime — Geographical Journal > (2) < would a true child always take precedence of an adopted child — Notes & Queries on Anthropology > 5. < heard by true telling that you have money and means — Augusta Gregory > < claim that his polls are a true representation of the opinions of the whole nation — Current Biography > specifically < prefer the narrow range with bias to a truer average with wider dispersed values — Photogrammetric Engineering > 6. a. < the blocks of granite were so true that practically no mortar was used — American Guide Series: Nevada > b. < supply the disposal agency with the originals or true copies of all documents — U.S. Code > < singing on true pitch > c. < a true product of his age, being neither more skeptical nor more credulous than any other — J.A.Rushing > < a true child of the rising West — H.E.Starr > d. < found his true vocation after many false starts > 7. a. < the machine is truer than the hand — Edward Bellamy > b. < a true understanding of our heritage — W.R.Steckel > < whose turns and rhythms of speech have been caught by a true ear — B.R.Redman > < imagination is truer than reason is — O.S.J.Gogarty > 8. < true north > < true west > 9. 10. < a how-to-do-it booklet in the truest sense of the word — Mary S. Switzer > 11. Synonyms: see faithful, real II. 1. 2. < the rail level may sag out of true — O.S.Nock > III. < trued an engine cylinder that had got out of round by boring it oversize > < trued an unbalanced grinding wheel with a dressing diamond > < repaired a worn housing by mounting it on centers in a lathe and taking a light trueing cut > < trues up a fixture with the machine spindle by using a dial indicator > IV. 1. < your childish lips spoke truer than you suspected — Rosa Luxemburg > 2. a. < the bullet flew straight and true > < the doors … still hang perfectly true — American Guide Series: Maryland > — often used as an interjection for emphasis or as a signal of confirmation, admission, or endorsement of a fact < true, there was a blot on the escutcheon of that lady — W.S.Gilbert > b. < a variety that comes true from seed > : without variation from or of type < genuine mutations usually breed true > |
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