falsity

英 [ˈfɔːlsəti]

美 [ˈfɔːlsəti]

n.  虚假; 不真实; 错误

复数：falsities　

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BNC.23395 / COCA.25357

牛津词典

noun

• 虚假；不真实；错误
  the state of not being true or genuine

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不正确的;虚假的;错误的
  If something isfalse, it is incorrect, untrue, or mistaken.
  1. It was quite clear the President was being given false information by those around him...
     很明显，总统身边的人在不断向他传递错误信息。
  2. You do not know whether what you're told is true or false...
     你不知道听到的是真还是假。
  3. His sister said he had deliberately given the hospital a false name and address.
     他姐姐说他故意给医院留了假名字和假地址。
• ADJ 人造的;伪造的;假的
  You usefalseto describe objects which are artificial but which are intended to look like the real thing or to be used instead of the real thing.
  1. ...the items she'd secreted in the false bottom of her suitcase.
     她藏在手提箱底部暗格中的物品
  2. ...a set of false teeth...
     一副假牙
  3. I was wearing false eyelashes and a sweater two sizes too small.
     我戴着假睫毛，穿着小了两号的毛衣。
• ADJ-GRADED (人)虚伪的;(举动)装腔作势的
  If you describe a person or their behaviour asfalse, you are criticizing them for being insincere or for hiding their real feelings.
  1. She bowed her head and smiled in false modesty...
     她低着头，故作谦卑地笑着。
  2. 'Thank you,' she said with false enthusiasm...
     “谢谢你，”她假装热情地说。
  3. Even to himself the geniality rang false and he came to a stop.
     这种亲切的语气他自己听来都显得虚伪，于是他停了下来。

英英释义

noun

• a false statement
  Synonym:falsehooduntruth
• the state of being false or untrue
  1. argument could not determine its truth or falsity
  Synonym:falseness

双语例句

• To demonstrate the falsity of the belief that we must continue to feed the productive machine with ever more ridiculous demands, let me indulge in a brief thought experiment.
  一种思维认为，我们必须不断以越来越无理性的需求来喂养生产机器。为了展示这一思维的错误，请让我来进行一个短暂的思想实验。
• Our moral judgments are not really judgments at all, for they do not express truth or falsity.
  我们的道德判断实际上根本不是判断，因为它们不表示真伪。
• The difficulties of spinsters uncover the falsity and vulnerability of the patriarchy family arrangement, which is the main obstacle in the marriage and profession of spinsters.
  剩女现象暴露出男权家庭制度的虚伪性和脆弱性，但是男权制的家庭仍然是剩女在职业和家庭选择中的主要障碍。
• He stressed to distinguish the truth and falsity from the book studied, not to follow the book blindly;
  他强调治学要甄别书中真伪，不可盲从书籍；
• judgements of truth or falsity.
  对虚与实的判断
• On the Falsity and Reality of Local Governments 'Tourism Image Engineering
  论地方政府旅游形象工程的虚与实
• There was some real falsity when they came to treat the Goddess of Mercy as a fashion plate of the court today.
  中国人渐渐把慈悲女神描绘成穿着时髦的宫廷贵妇形象，这可严重走样了。
• It was difficult to convict him of the falsity of his beliefs.
  难以使他认识到他信仰的虚假性。
• Truth, which is not a concept against falsity, has a wide range of possibilities and expressions.
  真实不是一个与虚假坚决对立的概念，它拥有多种可能性和表现形式。
• If we can prove the falsity of the forensic tests, the case against him will have to be dropped.
  如果我们能证明法医检验的结果是错误的，对他的诉讼就不得不撤回。