kernel of truth

短语

发音

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词形变化

kernels of truth 复数 kernels of truth

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A core accuracy at the heart of a claim or narrative which also contains dubious or fictitious elements.

    习语

    There may be a kernel of truth in the story of how George Washington confessed to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.

    1955, F. Schmidl, "The problem of scientific validation in psycho-analytic interpretation," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, vol 36 no 2 (Mar/Apr), pp. 105-113. This statement will be unacceptable to many biographers and historians, but there seems to be a definite kernel of truth in it.