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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.”).


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]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 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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