true friend

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word in a language that bears a resemblance to a word in another language and has an equivalent meaning. uncommon
    — True friends are such words when they have precisely or approximately the same meanings in one or more other languages. […] I have written many times that true friends are more numerous than false friends, particularly in the scitech vocabulary, where however there is an important minority of key false friends, carefully listed by my dear colleague Jean Maillot (he has died) in his invaluable La Traduction scientifique et technique (Paris 1981).
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see true, friend.
    — There is a well-known proverb, "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Americans have always been our true friends. They stretched out warm helping hands to us when we were in direst need. The Fulbright Program, which was initiated in the throes of the Korean War, has been one such helping hand.

词形变化

true friends plural

词源

By analogy with false friend.
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