the awful truth

常見例句

Then I learned the awful truth.
后來我才了解到糟糕的事實。
The specialist called us back into the hospital and revealed the awful truth - Emma had breast cancer.
醫(yī)生打電話請我們回醫(yī)院，宣布了一個可怕的事實——艾瑪?shù)昧巳橄侔?/li>
Now they have learnt the awful truth, they may decide to save a lot more, making the recession even worse than expected.
現(xiàn)在他們已經(jīng)見識到慘痛的現(xiàn)實，他們于是決定要多存些很多錢，這將使經(jīng)濟衰退的幅度比預(yù)期更糟。

The awful truth is that Japan is on the road to default.
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But it is undeniably true that her shop did an awful job in telling the public the truth about OSI.
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But it is more likely that future historians will note that, for all its shortcomings, it unearthed a sizeable chunk of truth about the country's awful past, and did so on a budget barely large enough to buy every South African a Coke.
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