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名詞

ring of truth (plural (uncommon) rings of truth)

1. (idiomatic) The impression of being truthful; especially of a statement or literary work; verisimilitude.

   Synonyms: believability, credibility, ring of authenticity

   At first I wasn't even sure I could believe the story, but I later felt it had a ring of truth to it.

   • 1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 20, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:

     I am too well accustomed to the taking of evidence not to detect the ring of truth.

   • 1908, Edith Wharton, The Pretext:

     She could hear the ring of truth in young Dawnish's voice.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:

     As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.

   • 2006 February 20, “Verbatim”, in Time:

     It is fiction. But it has the absolute ring of truth.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:

     Merchant Opold: This one promised compensation for services rendered. It humbly suggests that a sum of 250 credits would be most appropriate.
     Shepard: Would you have had any chance of getting this past customs without me? You can be a bit more generous.
     Merchant Opold: The other's words possess the discomforting ring of truth.
     Merchant Opold: This one could raise the sum to 500 credits. That is half this one's profit taken by the other. It can offer no more.

   • 2011, Linda Duquesne, Night of a Thousand Dreams, Mystical Experiences and Other Common Occurrences, page 77:

     The same concept is true with events also ... they have rings of truth.

   • 2018, David Miner, The Edge of the Circle:

     Some stories have rings of truth in them. It has been claimed that the faeries have gone away as humanity developed his technology and polluted his air, water, and soil.