truth

verità

Ciò che corrisponde ai fatti o a quello che è realmente accaduto.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: 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.)

Sinonimi: reality, fact

Contrari: falsehood, lie

Espressioni comuni: tell the truth, the whole truth, discover the truth, truth about something

fedeltà, lealtà

Essere fedeli a una persona, a una convinzione o ai propri sentimenti.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: truth to someone/something (The poem celebrates her truth to her own ideals.)

Sinonimi: faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty

Contrari: unfaithfulness, disloyalty

Espressioni comuni: truth to oneself, truth to someone, truth to principles