It turns out that this is only half true.

事实证明，这种说法只对了一半。

It turns out this is only half true.

事实证明这只对了一半。

But this was only half true.

但这只对了一半。

That is half true, half false.

那是一半正确， 一半错误。

A half-truth is trickier. It could be like the name says -- a statement that is half true and half false.

half-truth就更具欺诈性了。就像这个词的写法一样--指的是一种半真半假的陈述。

If only half the stories about him are half true, there's no question he's one of the smartest people who has ever lived.

即使他的故事里有一半是假的，都没有人会质疑他仍然是世界上最聪明的人之一。

It may not all be gospel truth (the description of British journalists he delivers while staring at Schumpeter—" bad teeth, hard questions" —is only half true).

这可能并不全是福音真理（他在盯着熊彼特时对英国记者的描述——“坏牙，棘手的问题” ——只对了一半）。

A true insinuation makes one wretched—that's unchristian—and to an untrue insinuation a man is indifferent—that's stupid, but at a half true one he feels vexed and impatient.

一个真实的影射使人变得可怜——那是非基督教的——一个人对一个不真实的影射漠不关心——那是愚蠢的， 但在半真实的情况下， 他会感到烦恼和不耐烦。

Well, a popular story holds that Pacman's shape was inspired by the shape of a pizza with a slice missing, but Toru Iwatani, the creator of pacman, admitted that was only half true.

在一则流行故事中提到 吃豆人的形状灵感正来源于缺了一块的披萨饼，但是Pacman之父Toru Iwatani 承认这并非完全正确。

I mean, that lifted such a burden from our shoulders about trying to pussyfoot around some kind of gentle way of breaking this to people that was gonna be half true because everybody in this community knew exactly what had happened.

我的意思是，这减轻了我们肩上的负担，因为我们试图以某种温和的方式向人们打破这一切，这将是一半正确的，因为这个社区中的每个人都确切地知道发生了什么。