確切地說 we finished it yesterday, as a matter of fact 其實,這事我們昨天就完成了 I used to live in France; in fact, not far from where you're going 我以前住在法國;確切地說,離你要去的地方不遠
an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
But that description is bound up with an inherently hateful attitude – so much so, that the target of the word is unable to separate that attitude from the fact about his identity.