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But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

我写信给你们，不是因你们不知道真理，正是因你们知道，并且知道没有虚谎是从真理出来的。

We've come out of nowhere, literally, nowhere, autumnal towns marked for destruction by a phantom hand; houses held underwater, every bed a sunken tub, tools drowned between rows, every keyhole caulked; clouds hallucinating girls asleep on a wedge of wedding cake; the white rose, among the greatest of liars beginning to show the debilitating effects of fame, the ever-popular blaze placates a vase; the bad sons of thunder beating back a strand of light; someone who knows nothing apart from the rain standing on a chair in muddy legs; the roses blown into their cumulonimbuses, and someone whose glove is recovered, a face that doesn't come clear, a face drawn under an umbrella, beautiful, charcoal, beautiful, like words that never get old, the sons of thunder beating

我们来自无处，纯粹意义上，无处置身，秋天的小镇已被一只无形的幻影之手作上毁灭的记号，房屋们都淹在水下，每一张床成了淹水浴盆，工具没在水滩里，每个洞眼充塞着。云层屯集着像女孩们昏睡于层叠的蛋糕边缘。白玫瑰，在巨大的谎言中，显露渐渐虚弱的光彩。和曾经眩目光芒抚慰着的花瓶。雷电的儿子们回击着一线光亮，有人不知情地站在泥泞的高椅子上，玫瑰被吹向积雨云，有人找到了她的手套，看不清楚的脸，从伞下移出，美丽的，黑炭似的，美丽的，像语言从来不会变老，雷电的儿子们回击着

When did fudging, lying, dissembling, dissimulating, equivocating, falsifying, fibbing, inventing, misleading, misrepresenting, misstating, and prevaricating, become business as usual?

当胡说八道，说谎，掩饰，装糊涂，说话模棱两可，伪造，撒小谎，发明，令人误解的，误传，说错话，支吾搪塞时，仍象往常一样成为生意伙伴吗？

One of the reasons people get away with so much lying, your research suggests, is that we are all essentially dupes.

您的调查研究显示，人们之所以能成功地撒了一个又一个谎而不被拆穿或被咎其责的一个主要原因，是我们实质上都是容易上当受骗的人。

You've spoken to someone on your cell phone and slightly fibbed about where you were.

当和别人在手机里说话时，对于你的所在地你想要稍稍撒一个小谎。

Or in my case, fibbed about.

又或者像我这样，撒个小谎。

She fibbed about her age.

有关她的年龄，她撒了个谎。

They also said they fibbed about how much they drank at a party, how fast they drive, whether they find their female friends attractive, how much they like their significant other's cooking or outfits --'After she's changed 10 times, you'll say yes to anything to get out the door'-- and yard work.

他们还说，关于在聚会上喝了多少酒，开车有多快，是否觉得自己的女性朋友很吸引人，有多喜欢自己另一半的厨艺或者着装等等，他们也都撒过谎。&在她换了10套衣服后，如果你还想出门的话，只能说好极了。&

Said they fibbed about how much they drank at a party, how fast they drive, whether they find their female friends attractive, how much they like their significant other's

们还说，关于在聚会上喝了多少酒，开车有多快，是否觉得自己的女性朋友很吸引人，有多喜欢自己另一半的厨艺或者着装等等，他们也都撒过谎。

India wants to know if you have relatives in Pakistan; America wants to know whether you were ever arrested for anything anywhere, and if so, why (your correspondent, detained several times by communist-era secret police, brazenly fibbed).

印度人想知道你是不是有亲戚在巴基斯坦，美国人想知道你有没有在什么地方曾经被拘留过，如果有，那为什么（鄙人曾经被共产党国家的秘密警察逮捕过很多次，在这方面曾厚脸皮的撒过很多次谎）。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。