a grain of truth

The suggestion that the gun was fired accidentally seems to contain at least a grain of truth.

枪支走火的说法至少似乎有点真实性。

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There is a grain of truth to this: China's life expectancy of 76 ( 74.8 for men, 77.3 for women) is about three years lower than the western average.

有一点道理：中国人的预期寿命为76岁（男性74.8岁、女性77.3岁），约比西方平均水平低三岁。

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I think there was a grain of truth in all of it.

我觉得那些话，不完全是没道理的。

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Obviously it's not like an election that's held, but there's a certain grain of truth in it.

显然，这机构不像我举行的选举，但是肯定有些真实的东西在。

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There is not a grain of truth in what she says.

她说的没有一句真话。

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There's more than a grain of truth in that.

其中含有很深刻的道理。

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Firstly, some of its points have at least a grain of truth.

首先，他们的一些观点至少有一些真实性。

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There are plenty of exceptions, but there is also a grain of truth, revealed throught the brain structure, that we think underlies some of the ways people characterize the sexes.

当然有很多意外，但也不乏从大脑结构中显露出的某些事实，我们认为这事实构成了人们在性别方面的某些特征。

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There was a grain of truth in what he said.

他说的话中有一丝真理.

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There isn't a grain of truth in those rumours.

那些谣传一点也不可靠。

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There is a grain of truth in these statements, but they ignore a more important fact.

这些论断确实有其正确的一面，但是他们忽略了一个重要的事实。

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There isn't a grain of truth in what he said.

他说的全不是真话.

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There is a grain of truth in what he says.

他说的话有点儿真实性。

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They take a grain of scientific truth, snowball it into ridiculous proportions and then try to sell their ludicrous premises to the public as entertainment.

他们把微小的某些科学放大到荒唐的地步，然后作为娱乐产品试图向大众推销这种荒谬说法。

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Like an idiot-savant who stumbles on a grain of truth through total ignorance, she was onto something.

就像一个大智若愚的人，凭借着一无所知却意外地得到了一点点真理，她还真是摸出点门道了。

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One might feel better about inequality if there were a grain of truth in trickle-down economics.

如果滴漏（trickle-down）经济学有一点点道理的话，人们对于不平等的心态或许会好一点。

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In every joke there's a grain of truth.

每一个笑话都有一个真理的种子。

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They have noticed a grain of truth in the statements, but have ignored a more important fact.

他们注意到了这些说法中的一些道理，但他们却忽视了一个重要的事实。

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Our observations may contain a grain of truth for you to refer to.

我们的意见也许会有千虑一得之处，供你参考。

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But others, including several former senior government officials, say there is a large grain of truth in the Kommersant interview.

但包括几位前政府高官在内的其他人士表示，《生意人报》的采访中包含着很多真实情况。

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