1. But to tell you the truth,
    不过说实在的，

2. But no one could have possibly guessed the truth — that the man with endless money and a friendly manner was not a lord at all but a government employee living out a fantasy that he was a Scottish noble and paying for it by stealing funds from Scotla
    可是谁也没有料到这个事实：这个财源滚滚、举止友好的人并非什么勋爵，而是一名政府公务员。他幻想自己是位苏格兰贵族，并从苏格兰场（即伦敦警察总署）盗用钱财来买这个贵族头衔。

3. We had to evolve the truth from a mass of confused evidence.
    我们不得不从大量庞杂的证据中推断出事情的真象。

4. What would he think if he learned the truth?
    他要是知道真实情况会怎么想呢？

5. We should follow the principle of seeking truth.
    我们要遵循实事求是的原则。

6. We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo´s spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;
    如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，

7. Whatever the truth may be, planes and ships regularly disappear in the triangle.
    不论真相如何，飞机和船只仍常常消失在这个三角地带。

8. When it comes to beauty who wants to know the truth?
    只要说是美容，谁还管真相如何？

9. There is much truth in the old adage about fools and their money.
    在这本关于愚人及其钱财的古老谚语中, 蕴藏着很多真理。

10. This is a close approximation to the truth.
    那很接近于事实真相。