One historian refers to biographies of particular political figures as trees in the forest of historical truth. By looking at the "trees," one may not necessarily be able to see the "forest," but if one puts together a number of people's versions of the same event, one may still arrive at a picture more or less approaching the truth.
一位歷史學者將以特定政治人物為主幹的傳記比喻為樹，歷史真相為林，「見樹」未必能「見林」，但將多位人物的對同一事件的說法拼湊起來，總是可以得到一個較接近真相的圖像。