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

• No one allowed Truth to enter a home and everyone who encountered Truth ran away in fright.
  没有人愿意让真理进到他们家里，甚至每一个碰到他的人，都会落荒而逃。
• 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。
• "Oh," cried scarlett, fresh pain striking her as gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
  “啊！”思嘉叫起来，由于杰拉尔德的话把事实的不可避免性说到家了，她心中产生了新的痛苦。
• We were walking quickly because she just wanted to get home ( and so did I, truth be told).
  我们走得很快，因为她一心想快点到家（事实上我也是）。
• 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。
• Compare with definition and evaluation standards at home and abroad, from the development tendency, it can reflect the national characteristic, which making situation itself as a starting point, seeking truth from facts.
  将国内外准则进行比较，从比较中发现我国会计准则的特色，是以自身国情为出发点，坚持实事求是。
• 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。
• This is a a home truth, but I have to refer to it again to remind myself to turn to the direction compatible with me and walk this way on and on.
  这是一个老生常谈的话题了，但是我不得不再次提起它来提醒我自己：转向适合自己的方向，沿着这条路持续前行。
• 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。
• 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