falsehood
falsehood 英 [ˈfɔ:lshʊd] 美 [ˈfɔlsˌhʊd]
n. 谎言；假话；不真实
名词复数:falsehoods
- A falsehood is a lie. If your mom has an uncanny knack for knowing when you're telling a falsehood, it means she always knows when you're stretching the truth.
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- n. 谎言；假话；不真实
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1. to test the truth or falsehood of her claims
检验她陈述的真伪
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2. He spoke a falsehood.
他撒了谎.
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3. His story was replete with falsehood.
他的报导充满了虚伪.
- falsehood (n.) c. 1300, falshede, "deceitfulness," also "a lie; that which is false," from false + -hood. Formed on the same pattern are Old Frisian falschede, Dutch valschheid, German Falschheit, Swedish falskhet. Former noun forms in English, now extinct, included falsage "wrongdoing" (late 15c.), falsdom "deceitfulness, treachery; a lie" (c. 1300), fals-lek "falsehood" (early 14c.), falsshipe "deceitfulness, dishonesty" (c. 1200).
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