the awful truth

常见例句

Then I learned the awful truth.
後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.
毉生打電話請我們廻毉院，宣佈了一個可怕的事實——艾瑪得了乳腺癌。
Now they have learnt the awful truth, they may decide to save a lot more, making the recession even worse than expected.
現在他們已經見識到慘痛的現實，他們於是決定要多存些很多錢，這將使經濟衰退的幅度比預期更糟。

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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