fact是什么意思_fact怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened;"he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"

an event known to have happened or something known to have existed;"your fears have no basis in fact"
"how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

a concept whose truth can be proved;"scientific hypotheses are not facts"

中英词源

fact 事实

来自PIE*dhe, 做，放置，语源同do, face. 即做出来的事。

fact: fact: [16] A fact is literally ‘something that is done’. It comes from Latin factum ‘deed’, a noun based on the past participle of facere ‘do’. This verb, a distant relative of English do, has contributed richly to English vocabulary, from obvious derivatives like factitious [17] and factitive [19] to more heavily disguised forms such as difficult, effect, fashion, feasible, feature, and fetish, not to mention the -fic suffix of words like horrific and pacific, and the related verbal suffix -fy.

To begin with, English adopted the word in its original Latin sense ‘deed’, but this now survives only in legal contexts, such as ‘accessory after the fact’. There is sporadic evidence in classical Latin, however, of its use for ‘something that happens, event’, and this developed in post-classical times to produce ‘what actually is’, the word’s main modern sense in French fait and Italian fatto as well as in their English relative fact. Feat is essentially the same word as fact, filtered through Old French.
=> difficult, do, effect, fashion, feasible, feature, fetish
fact (n.): 1530s, "action, anything done," especially "evil deed," from Latin factum "an event, occurrence, deed, achievement," in Medieval Latin also "state, condition, circumstance," literally "thing done" (source also of Old French fait, Spanish hecho, Italian fatto), noun use of neuter of factus, past participle of facere "to do" (see factitious). Main modern sense of "thing known to be true" is from 1630s, from notion of "something that has actually occurred."

Compare feat, which is an earlier adoption of the same word via French. Facts "real state of things (as distinguished from a statement of belief)" is from 1630s. In fact "in reality" is from 1707. Facts of life "harsh realities" is from 1854; euphemistic sense of "human sexual functions" first recorded 1913. Alliterative pairing of facts and figures is from 1727.
Facts and Figures are the most stubborn Evidences; they neither yield to the most persuasive Eloquence, nor bend to the most imperious Authority. [Abel Boyer, "The Political State of Great Britain," 1727]

词态变化

复数 facts;

权威造句

1. The indisputable fact is that computers carry out logical operations.: 不容置疑的事实是，电脑执行逻辑操作指令。

2. "I know you," he said flatly, matter-of-fact, neutral in tone.: “我认识你。”他平淡地说道，就事论事，不带任何感情。

3. You have to admit that you are, in fact, in difficulties.: 你不得不承认，你事实上是陷入了困境。

4. The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.: 蛇蜥其实不是蛇，而是无脚的蜥蜴。

5. The fact of the matter is that student finances are stretched.: 关键是奖学金有限。

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近反义词

actuality

certainty

event

feature

reality

truth

相似短语

the fact that n....的事实

in fact 1.（补充细节）确切地说2.（用以强调，尤其与刚提到的相反）事实上，实际上

matter of fact n.[律] 事实问题,事实

statistical fact 统计事实

acquittal in fact 【法】依事实宣告无罪

collateral fact 【法】间接事实

fact node 【计】事实结点

fact finding 实况调查

stretch of fact 【法】夸大事实

established fact 既定事实

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