home truth

英 [ˌhəʊm ˈtruːθ]

美 [ˌhoʊm ˈtruːθ]

n.  使人不愉快的事实(通常由别人告知); (关于某人的)大实话

牛津词典

noun

• 使人不愉快的事实（通常由别人告知）；（关于某人的）大实话
  a true but unpleasant fact about a person, usually told to them by sb else
  1. It's time you told him a few home truths.
     现在你该给他讲点实话了。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （通常由别人告知的关于自己的）不愉快的事实，逆耳之言
  Home truthsare unpleasant facts that you learn about yourself, usually from someone else.
  1. We held a team meeting and a few home truths were spelled out.
     我们开了一个队内会议，互相说了些不中听的话。

英英释义

noun

• an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)

双语例句

• Lucille's home was very grandly called a chateau, though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm.
  露西尔的家美其名曰城堡，事实上不过是一座壕沟环绕的大农场。
• In the heart of not a few consumers, always think that "low carbon" home embarks for certain amount to top price load in the home, the truth is really not so.
  在不少消费者的心目中，总以为“低碳”家装就一定等于高价家装，事实并非如此。
• Perhaps, in recent years away from home entertainment, makes me feel more truth of valuable.
  或许，这些年出门在外的应酬，令我倍感真情的可贵。
• Catherine Linton ( the very name warms me), my bonnie lass, I shall be from home all this week; go and see if I have not spoken truth: do, there's a darling!
  凯瑟琳·林惇（就是这名字都使我感到温暖），我的好姑娘，今后这一个礼拜我都不在家；去瞧瞧我是不是说实话吧：去吧，那才是乖宝贝儿！
• Their implosion, after years of rapid expansion abroad, rammed home the unpleasant truth that banks may be global in life but are national in death.
  在经历了为期数年的急速海外扩张后，这些银行在一夜之间轰然倒塌，猛然揭示了令人不安的事实：银行可以作为全球企业存在，但只能作为民族企业消亡。
• The stereotype of grandparents sitting at home with a blanket over their knees could not be further from the truth.
  传统印象中，祖父母膝上搭条毯子在家待着的情景已经不复存在。
• He believes that university is the spiritual home to pursue freedom and truth, and spiritual interaction is the most important path to achieve.
  他认为大学是追求自由和真理的精神家园，而精神交往是最重要的实现路径。
• He observes this home budgeting truth that "there is no typical month" to be a lot like agile development and our use of velocity
  他注意到家庭预算的事实那就是“没有具有代表性的月份”与敏捷开发以及我们使用的生产率非常相似
• Home is an inner state of being in which one has returned unto one's own truth.
  家是一个人回归到自身真相中的内在状态。
• When he arrives home from school that day, he says to his mother," I know the whole truth. "
  那天放学回家，他对他的妈妈说：“我知道所有的真相。”