词汇 | truism |
释义 | truism noun[ C ] uk /ˈtruː.ɪ.zəm/ us /ˈtruː.ɪ.zəm/ a statement that is so obviously true that it is almost not worth saying: 自明之理,不言而喻的话 As far as health is concerned, it's a truism that prevention is better than cure.就健康而言,预防胜于治疗,这是不言而喻的。 Reality and truth actuality apothegm authenticity axiomatically brute fact God's truth gospel home truth immediacy impostor syndrome practice real life the real McCoy the real thing the real worldphrase truth is stranger than fictionidiom truth will outidiom veracity verisimilitude verity truism | American Dictionarytruism noun[ C ] us/ˈtru·ɪz·əm/ a statement that is so obvious or said so often that its truth is not questioned: It’s a truism that preventing disease is much better than curing it. Examples of truismtruism This theme rests on a truism: that, fundamentally, we live our lives together in work, in love, in politics. It is a truism in technological circles to state that we live in an age of convergence. It is by now a philosophical truism that true belief does not amount to knowledge. Such a social history may be more attuned to the relationship between knowledge and power, yet this too is a truism that eludes precise description. In detail, the result seems to a modern observer to come from a parallel universe in which all the conventional truisms are reversed. This emphasises the truism that caring for two dependants at the same time puts extra demands on the carer. This view was almost a truism of the times. All the more forcibly, therefore, she makes obvious the benefits of an approach that can dismantle easy truisms. Medieval merchants marvelled in much money + a universal truism. Here the truism applies that what is legal is not necessarily ethical. And if the morality of right- and wrongdoing does not exhaust morality, the claim that rightness is law's first virtue is a truism. In this careful empirical study she has refuted some of the most negative truisms repeated about endowments. A third broad perspective has certainly not become a truism among psychologists. His book is testament to the truism that great research is the prerequisite for great historical writing. That there are winners in the process of economic development is a truism. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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