to tell the truth

基本解釋

To tell the truth, I envy him.
說實(shí)話，我倒是很羨慕他。
And you know that even in the best marriages and romantic relationships, we sometimes fail to tell the truth.
而你也清楚，即便是最美好的婚姻，最浪漫的兩性關(guān)系，我們有時候也無法說實(shí)話。
If anything, they have only made me increasingly gloomy. To tell the truth, they have made me more and more contemptuous of other people.
倘要我尋出這些事的影響來說，便衹是增長了我的壞脾氣，——老實(shí)說，便是教我一天比一天的看不起人。
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"The criminal justice system relies on the testimony of persons and their ability to tell the truth.
Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.
萊特自己描述了,自傳寫作的艱辛，他如是說：,“我發(fā)現(xiàn)說真話是世界上最難的事，比蓡加戰(zhàn)爭難，比蓡加革命難，如果嘗試寫自傳。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選
And then after that, it was about a two-year wait, to tell you the truth.
在那之後，老實(shí)說，大概還要等上個兩年。
想儅軍人的理由 - SpeakingMax英語口語達(dá)人

And we sent a message to the FBI - you got to tell the truth.
NPR: Judge Remembers Time on Top Secret Bench