| 词组 | true facts |
| 释义 | true facts The phrase true facts is cited as a redundancy by many commentators, who argue that all facts are, by definition, true. Against this argument it may be pointed out that many statements that are presented as facts turn out on closer examination to be less than entirely true. The phrase true facts, like real facts and actual facts, serves to emphasize that the truth of the facts in question is beyond doubt. True facts is especially likely to occur, and is most appropriately used, when there is reason to be suspicious of some of the "facts": • I flung it aside after fifty pages and laid hold of Mrs. Phillips, where I expected to find at least probable, if not true, facts —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 16 Feb. 1752 • "... We'd begun to get some true facts. We didn't have any real idea how many people were sick.... But we did have the number of deaths.... The rumors hadn't come close to it " —New Yorker, 30 Sept. 1950 • It's only now that the true facts are coming out, almost a hundred years, and it's a pity it took so long —Harry S. Truman, in Merle Miller, Plain Speaking, 1973 |
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