查询词典 truth-function

In my view, both myths are just that: Each has a grain of truth, but each is mostly wrong.

依我看来，上面两个观点确实都含有少量的正确因素，但总体上说都是错误的。

Obviously it's not like an election that's held, but there's a certain grain of truth in it.

显然，这机构不像我举行的选举，但是肯定有些真实的东西在。

Some people say that soft realism is intuitionism against the "true realism", but also a grain of truth.

有人说软现实主义是用直觉主义反对"真正的现实主义"，也有一定道理的。

The old joke that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migrant has more than a grain of truth in it.

有一个老笑话说"没有什么比这些临时工人更永久的了"，现在这已经不止是一个笑话了。

There is a grain of truth to some of the latter claims, but there is also an awful lot of of hyperbole.

这确实是事实，但也有夸张的成分。

Generalizations, of course, should never be believed wholesale, but often hold a grain of truth.

当然，概括不应该全信，但还是有一定道理的。

Every rumor has a grain of truth.

每一个谣言多少都有点儿真实性。

While there is a grain of truth in this perspective, it shuts off understanding and appreciation of more complex things.

虽说在这种观点里也确实还有那么一分的真理，但是它却阻绝了我们对更为复杂的事情的理解和鉴识。

But to tell the truth,it was not worth a hill of beans.

但说实话，我认为那本书一文不值。

But to tell the truth, it was not worth a hill of beans.

但说实话，我认为那本书一钱不值。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。