truth

真実、事実

事実や、実際に起きたことと一致すること。

やさしい英語で： What agrees with the facts or with what really happened.

• Please tell me the truth.
• He hid the truth about his past.
• There was little truth in the rumours.

使い方： the truth about someone/something (We finally learned the truth about the accident.); there is truth in something (There is some truth in what she says.)

類義語： reality, fact

反対語： falsehood, lie

よく使う表現： tell the truth, the whole truth, discover the truth, truth about something

忠実、誠実さ

人や信念、自分の気持ちに忠実であること。

やさしい英語で： Being faithful to a person, belief, or your own feelings.

• Her truth to her beliefs never weakened.
• The story praises his truth to an old friend.
• For the poet, truth to oneself mattered more than praise.

使い方： truth to someone/something (The poem celebrates her truth to her own ideals.)

類義語： faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty

反対語： unfaithfulness, disloyalty

よく使う表現： truth to oneself, truth to someone, truth to principles