| 词组 | true |
| 释义 | true When true means "faithful," it is followed by to: • ... reaps all the advantage there is in being true to a particular piece of earth —Mark Van Dören, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 21 Mar. 1954 • True to form, I store it in the icebox, ready for unexpected guests —M. F. K. Fisher, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 1969 In other senses, true occurs commonly with for or of: • ... black men are more likely to hold the doctorate than black women in the sample, and the same is true for whites —David M. Rafky, Change, October 1971 • ... it is not an age when the same event can be said to be true for faith but untrue for science —W. R. Inge, The Church in the World, 1928 • This, I shall maintain, is necessarily true of any form of externality —Bertrand Russell, Foundations of Geometry, 1897 • ... even this, it seems, was truer of the Ivy League schools than of most others —Richard H. Rovere, New Yorker, 18 Nov. 1972 |
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