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CET4TEM4考研CET6中高频词基本词汇

英 [truː] 美[tru]

释义

adj. 真实的；正确的

adv. 真实地；准确地

n. 真实；准确

vt. 装准

n. (TRUE)人名；(英)特鲁

词态变化

比较级: truer;最高级: truest;

近义词

legitimate certain valid proper correct unmistakable natural accurate exact real veritable actual genuine right authentic

中文词源

true 真的，真实的

来自古英语 triewe,忠诚的，真诚的，来自 Proto-Germanic*treuwaz,信仰，忠诚，来自 PIE*deru, 稳定的，稳固的，词源同 tree,endure.后引申词义依据事实的，真的，真实的等。

英文词源

true: true: [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of true is ‘faithful, steadfast, firm’; ‘in accordance with the facts’ is a secondary development. It goes back to the prehistoric Germanic base *treww-, which also produced German treue and Dutch trouw ‘faithful’ and the English noun truce, and it has been speculated that it may ultimately have links with the Indo- European base *dru- ‘wood, tree’ (source of English tree), the semantic link being the firmness or steadfastness of oaks and suchlike trees. Truth [OE] comes from the same source, as do its derivative betroth [14], its now archaic variant troth [16], the equally dated trow [OE], and probably also trust and tryst.
=> betroth, troth, trow, truce, trust, truth, tryst
true (adj.): Old English triewe (West Saxon), treowe (Mercian) "faithful, trustworthy, honest, steady in adhering to promises, friends, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *treuwaz- "having or characterized by good faith" (cognates: Old Frisian triuwi, Dutch getrouw, Old High German gatriuwu, German treu, Old Norse tryggr, Danish tryg, Gothic triggws "faithful, trusty"), from PIE *drew-o-, a suffixed form of the root *deru-/*dreu- "be firm, solid, steadfast" (cognates: Lithuanian drutas "firm," Welsh drud, Old Irish dron "strong," Welsh derw "true," Old Irish derb "sure"), with specialized sense "wood, tree" and derivatives referring to objects made of wood (see tree (n.)).

Sense of "consistent with fact" first recorded c. 1200; that of "real, genuine, not counterfeit" is from late 14c.; that of "conformable to a certain standard" (as true north) is from c. 1550. Of artifacts, "accurately fitted or shaped" it is recorded from late 15c. True-love (n.) is Old English treowlufu. True-born (adj.) first attested 1590s. True-false (adj.) as a type of test question is recorded from 1923. To come true (of dreams, etc.) is from 1819.
true (v.): "make true in position, form, or adjustment," 1841, from true (adj.) in the sense "agreeing with a certain standard." Related: Trued; truing.

双语例句

1. As a player he was unselfish, a true team man.: 作为一名选手，他毫无私念，真正把自己摆在团队中。

2. But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture.: 但和其他慈善机构一样，这些数字掩盖了实情。

3. Too much salt masks the true flavour of the food.: 太多的盐会盖住食物本来的味道。

4. They were decked out in tracksuits, seemingly to dissimulate their true function.: 他们都穿着田径服，似乎想掩饰他们的真实职能。

5. The jury is out on whether or not this is true.: 这是否属实仍未得出定论。

英英释意

1. proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment;: "out of true"

实用场景例句

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false .: 标出下列说法是对还是错。

Is it true she's leaving?: 她要走是真的吗？

All the rumours turned out to be true.: 所有的传闻结果都确有其事。

That's not strictly (= completely) true.: 那不完全正确。

The novel is based on a true story .: 这部小说是根据真实的故事写成的。

His excuse just doesn't ring (= sound) true .: 他的借口听起来就不真实。

Unfortunately, these findings do not hold true (= are not valid) for women and children.: 遗憾的是，这些调查结果不适用于妇女和儿童。

The music is dull and uninspiring, and the same is true of the acting.: 音乐沉闷枯燥毫不动人，表演也是。

You never spoke a truer word (= used to emphasize that you agree with what sb has just said) .: 你说的一点不假。

the true face of capitalism (= what it is really like rather than what people think it is like): 资本主义的真实情况

The true cost of these experiments to the environment will not be known for years to come.: 这些实验对环境造成的确切代价在未来数年内是看不见的。

He reveals his true character to very few people.: 他没有向什么人显露过他的真实性格。

It was true love between them.: 他们是真心相爱。

Everything I had heard about him was true...: 我听说的关于他的一切都是真实的。

He said it was true that a collision had happened…: 他说真的发生了冲突。

I allowed myself to acknowledge my true feelings...: 我愿意承认我的真实感情。

The true cost often differs from that which had first been projected...: 实际成本经常与最初计划的有所不同。

This country professes to be a true democracy…: 这个国家自称是真正的民主政体。

Maybe one day you'll find true love...: 也许有一天你会找到真爱。

I accept that the romance may have gone out of the marriage, but surely this is true of many couples...: 我同意婚姻里可能已经没有了浪漫这一说法，而且很多夫妻都的确如此。

Expenditure on health in most of these countries has gone down, and the same is true for education.: 这些国家的医疗支出大多已经下降，教育支出也是如此。

It's true she gets madly impatient with him, but what mother doesn't?…: 她确实对他极其不耐烦，但哪个母亲不是这样呢？

The state, it is true, gave money towards their wages. Nevertheless the whole process had not been organized properly…: 诚然，政府已经拨款支付他们的工资。但整个过程没有组织妥当。

David was true to his wife...: 戴维忠于妻子。

India has remained true to democracy...: 印度一直奉行民主政治。

Many of his predictions are coming true…: 他的很多预言正成为现实。

Owning a place of their own is a dream come true for the couple.: 这对夫妇拥有了自己的房子，终于梦想成真了。

This law is known to hold true for galaxies at a distance of at least several billion light years.: 据知，这条定律同样适用于距离至少几十亿光年之远的星系。

On the whole the celebrations were remarkably good-humoured and peaceful. Indeed, it seemed almost too good to be true.: 总体上，庆典活动一派快乐祥和。事实上，简直好得让人难以置信。

The opening scenes of this movie are just not true to life.: 这部电影开场的几幕真是太假了。

考试真题

What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.

True to her word, she was correct almost every time.

It isn't true.

Auto makers and tech companies are working hard to offer the first true selfdriving car.

Seek true pleasureTo have a meaningful, happy life we need friends.

In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.

Well, if this were true, we would all be slipping a few 100-dollar bills to our doctors on the way out their doors, too.

A designer can't survive without participating in Paris Fashion Week, she says, adding, Our argument is that the same would be true of New York Fashion Week.

That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go.

This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade.

It sounds almost too good to be true.

If you believe that you have found true romance, and your culture tells you that this is what a long-term relationship should be based on, there is less need to rely on social or family pressures to keep couples together, O'Sullivan argues

It's true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for).

And it's true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it's a new one or not

understands their true values

Some restaurants are modifying the recipes (菜谱) of British dishes to breathe new life into the classics, while others are using better quality ingredients but remaining true to British traditions and tastes.

Some restaurants go for custard made fresh with eggs, sugar and cream, but British custard is different, and we stay true to that

People with low self-esteem seldom write down their true feelings.

Goldberg calls the problem a disorder rather than a true addiction

You know, Lisa, what they say about pregnant women really is true.

I suppose Jason was too good to be true.

Auto makers and tech companies are working hard to offer the first true self-driving car.

But according to Aristotle — a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great — most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.

Goel didn't inform them about jill's true identity until April 26.

In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of their parents, and this is especially true of young men.

In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures — advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

It is true that textbook publishers have recently reported losses, largely due to students renting or buying used print textbooks.

That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

The carts he refers to are small shopping carts—the symbol of a true Venetian.

The same is true for education.

This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade.

The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.

Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.

If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.

That would be true only if you believed that patients should have an unrestrained right to treatments proven to be inferior.

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at the dawn of this new millennium ( ' , 千年).

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

It's simply not true that economic growth will surely make our world cleaner.

It is not necessarily true that economic growth will make our world cleaner.

Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

The lamp, the fixture, and the room, all three must work in concert for the true benefits of end users.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what it has always been.

It made an ancient dream come true

I really can't let my mother know my true feelings.

This is especially true of editors, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do.

After his election victory, this was true of all the black participants.

Finding the true nature of subatomic particles.

And is it true that some singers use drugs before concerts to boost their voices when they have voice problems?

Modern art cannot express people's true feelings.

That's particularly true when it comes to the work place', says Barry Schwartz, an author of six books about human behavior.

You might expect that the student who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision, but it turns out that's not true

A high-tech test that can tell when a person is not telling the truth sounds too good to be true.

A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

All these effects held true for measures of happiness, life satisfaction and self-esteem, with the effects stronger in the 8th and l0th-graders.

All those things are true, but aside from him, all his friends and family are played by actors.

And it's true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it's a new one or not.

And when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

But in the end, one of two things is true.

Dehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people's enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera.

It's true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from .

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at dawn of this new millennium(千年).

The Amburghs, too, were true believers in grass-fed.

The collaborative trend is true across scientific disciplines.

The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time.

The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time: In one experiment, for example, customers of the grocery-delivery service Peapod were seen as of higher status than people who shopped at grocery stores that were equall

The same is true for the airplanes.

The true authorship of "Mary's little Lamb" is disputed.

These results held true even taking into account that many of the women in the study were breastfeeding their babies.

They found that students with more potential earned more as adults, and the reverse held true as well, no matter where they went to school.

This was especially true for younger people.

This, she shows, is not true.

True to his word, Grune has shaken up the culture here.

And that's true all across the country.

And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true.

As it turned out, their initial judgments often held true.

Here they are learning to get in touch with their true feelings.

I can tell you that what they are saying is a not nice and b not even true.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

I have thought long and hard about it and it's true.

It is true, however, that working at home makes people much more efficient, because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their jobs done.

It must be true that sooner or later, everyone finds his or her way back to nature.

It would provide true and objective information.

It's partly true that Dickens' style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life.

Music was his true passion, though he had never performed outside the family.

Peter mcnaught, operations director at London underground, said: "It may not seem right that you can go quicker by standing still, but our experiments at holborn have proved that it can be true."

So information was exchanged, but it wasn't a true, intentional back and forth.

Sounds too good to be true?

Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann at a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness.

The same is true of the young adults going to college.

True creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new.

True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal meant me no real harm.

Upon hearing the teacher's talk, the children probably felt that it sounded too good to be true.

We have entered into an age when dreams have the best chance of coming true.

With all she had been through in her ten years, this was the hour of true triumph.

You are the lucky inheritor of a dream come true.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

Regrettably, however, the report’s failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

What is true of London is even truer of the provinces.

This is especially true in first impressions.

Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents.

Britain town, it is true are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bit to beat their bigger competitions.

But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

However, a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a to

It's true that high-school coding classes aren't essential for learning computer science in college.

Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

Regrettably, however, the report's failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

词组搭配

come true

actually happen or become the case

实现，成为事实

dreams can come true.
梦想可以成真。

out of true (或 the true)

not in the correct or exact shape or alignment

不正，歪斜

take care not to pull the frame out of true.
小心别把框子给弄歪了。

many a true word is spoken in jest

(proverb)a humorous remark not intended to be taken seriously may turn out to be accurate after all

(谚)笑谈之中多真话

Afrikaans

(S. African informal)absolutely true

(南非, 非正式)绝对真实的

true as Bob, I nearly went right through the windscreen.
我差点从挡风玻璃那里飞了出去，这是真的。

true to form

(或 type)being or behaving as expected

不出所料，果不其然；同平时一样

true to type, they took it well.
不出所料，他们很好地领会了其中的意思。

true to life

accurately representing real events or objects

符合生活真实的；逼真的

同义词辨析

accurate, exact, precise, right, true, correct

这些形容词均含"准确的，正确的"之意。

accurate：指通过谨慎的努力达到符合事实或实际，侧重不同程度的准确性，与事实无出入。

exact：着重在质与量方面的准确，语气比accurate强。

precise：侧重极端准确，更强调细节的精确无误。

right：使用广泛，可与这些词中的correct换用，但常暗示道德、理解、行动等方面的正确。

true：暗指绝对准确，尤指复制品与原件丝毫不差。

correct：最常用词，主要指按一定标准或规则来衡量，没有谬误和差错或无缺点错误。

faithful, loyal, constant, true

这些形容词均含有"忠实的"之意。

faithful：多指对人对事或对诺言、誓言的始终不渝，侧重在任何情况下都绝不改变。

loyal：一般指对祖国、领袖的忠诚或对事业、原则、誓言的忠实，不动摇。

constant：侧重指思想状态的稳定或信念的坚定，也指爱情或感情等的忠贞不渝。

true：侧重个人感情上的忠实和不动摇。

genuine, authentic, actual, real, true, factual

这些形容词均有"真的，真实的，实在的"之意。

genuine：普通常用词，指真正的，货真价实的，强调非人为或非虚假的。

authentic常可与genuine换用，指与事实完全相符，强调准确可靠。

actual：指事物的实际存在，并非出自主观臆造。

real：普通用词，含义较广，有时可与actual和genuine换用。指一切真实的或表面看不出虚假的事物。

true：指同实际情况或标准完全一致。口语中多用。

factual与actual同义，但更测重根据事实，不扩大或缩小，不渲染。