There appears to be an element of truth in his story.

他的说法似乎有点道理。

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There's an element of truth to this but it's not the whole truth.

这是真理的一个因素并不是全部。

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Josephus tell us quite another story, containing perhaps also an element of truth.

约瑟夫告诉了我们一个完全不同的故事，也许会包含一点点的真实。

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"There is an element of truth in that,". "But the option to simply starve a large population of civilians because you have a parasitic insurgency group attached to them is not a choice.

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It's the fact that there's an element of truth in it that makes it seem like a good argument.

它确实有点道理,不然那个说法也不会听起来像是对的

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Surely there's an element of truth in both models.

当然，两个模型都有其正确性。

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Like almost all feelings of victimhood, there's an element of truth in every one of these statements.

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