the awful truth

英汉例句

Then I learned the awful truth.
后来我才了解到糟糕的事实。
The specialist called us back into the hospital and revealed the awful truth - Emma had breast cancer.
医生打电话请我们回医院，宣布了一个可怕的事实——艾玛得了乳腺癌。
Now they have learnt the awful truth, they may decide to save a lot more, making the recession even worse than expected.
现在他们已经见识到惨痛的现实，他们于是决定要多存些很多钱，这将使经济衰退的幅度比预期更糟。

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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