honest, genuine, new-but-old. WHEN Da Vinci, a retailer of expensive imported furniture, opened its new showroom in Shanghai recently, it spared no expense.

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WHEN Da Vinci, a retailer of expensive imported furniture, opened its new showroom in Shanghai recently, it spared no expense. The gallery, over 10,000 square metres spread over four stories, was filled with extravagant pieces from brands such as Armani Casa and Versace Home. The theme of the event was zhen de jia bu liao (roughly: “what is genuine cannot be counterfeited.”).

近日，專營高檔進口家具的零售商達文西在上海開設了新的展廳，可謂不惜工本。這間佔地超過1萬平方公尺、橫跨四層樓的展廳，陳列著阿瑪尼家居 (Armani Casa) 和范思哲家居 (Versace Home) 等品牌的奢華家具。這次活動的主題是「真品無法仿冒」。
honest
adj.

1. Marked by or displaying integrity; upright: an honest lawyer.
2. Not deceptive or fraudulent; genuine: honest weight.
3. Equitable; fair: honest wages for an honest day's work.
4. 1. Characterized by truth; not false: honest reporting.
   2. Sincere; frank: an honest critique.
5. 1. Of good repute; respectable.
   2. Without affectation; plain: honest folk.
6. Virtuous; chaste.

[Middle English, from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, honorable, from honor, honor (earlier honōs).]

adjective

• free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere:I haven’t been totally honest with you
• morally correct or virtuous:I did the only right and honest thing
• [attributive] fairly earned, especially through hard work:struggling to make an honest living
• (of an action) blameless or well intentioned even if unsuccessful or misguided:he’d made an honest mistake

an honest mistake：無心之過，非刻意的錯誤。例句：I gave her the wrong answer, but it was an honest mistake.（我告訴她錯的答案，但我不是故意的。）
[attributive] simple, unpretentious, and unsophisticated:good honest food with no gimmicks

adverb

[sentence adverb] informal

• used to persuade someone of the truth of something:you’ll like it when you get there, honest

Phrases

make an honest woman of

dated or humorous marry a woman, especially to avoid scandal if she is pregnant.

[honest here originally meant 'respectable', but was probably associated with the archaic sense 'chaste, virtuous']

to be honest

speaking frankly:I’ve never been much of a movie buff, to be honest

genuine[gen・u・ine]

• 発音記号[dʒénjuin]

[形]

1 〈人・感情などが〉誠実な, 偽りのない

genuine happiness
本当の幸福.

2 〈物などが〉本物の, 真の, まがい物でない

a genuine diamond
本物のダイヤ

the genuine article
((略式))本物

a genuine signature
本人の署名

a genuine insult
まぎれもない侮辱.

3 〈人が〉純血の；〈動物が〉純種の

a genuine American
生粋のアメリカ人.

［ラテン語genuīnus （genus種族＋-INE¹＝種族の→まがい物でない）. △GENUS］

gen・u・ine・ness

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