谎

For modern men and women are convicted that, despite all their little peccadilloes – drinking, gambling, reckless driving, sexual laxity, black and white lies, sharp practice in trading, dirty reading, and what have you – they are at heart thoroughly good folks.

现代人确信他们打心底里是好人，除了他们那些细小的陋习，如：酗个酒、赌个博、鲁莽驾驶、性开放、说个小谎、不正当交易、看色情书等等。

But no link was found between telling porkies and a tendency to cheat in exams or commit fraud in later life.

但是在他们之后的人生中的作弊或者诈骗犯罪行为和说小谎可是没有什么关系。

But no link was found between telling porkies and a tendency to cheat in exams or commit fraud in later life.

但是在他们之后的人生中的作弊或者诈骗犯罪行为和说小谎并没有什么关系。

It shames me to say it , but I told a lie.

说起来很难启齿，但我确实撒了个谎。

It shames me to say it ,but i told a lie when questioned at the meeting by my boss.

真是让我觉得羞愧，我在会议上回答老板的问题的时候撒了谎

Many women I spoke with seemed almost proud of the cleverness of their shams.

和我交谈过的许多女性似乎都对她们高明的扯谎技巧感到近乎沾沾自喜。

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

谎骗和谬见已被高估为最健全的真理，现实倒是荒诞不经的。

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre hand never breathed the breath of life ; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies , and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

一个比简爱更傻的傻瓜却从未感受过生命的气息，一个更异想天开的白痴却从不会让自己陷于甜蜜的谎言中，并把毒药当美酒喝下

Bertha Supple told that once to Edy Boardman, a deliberate lie, when she was black out at daggers drawn with Gerty (the girl chums had of course their little tiffs from time to time like the rest of mortals) and she told her not to let on whatever she did that it was her that told her or she'd never speak to her again.

有一次伯莎。萨波尔被格蒂气昏了头，大有剑拔弩张之势（彼此要好的少女们自然也像其他凡人一样，不时地会闹些小别扭），她便故意对伊迪。博德曼撒了这么个谎。伯莎还告诉伊迪，千万不要对人说这话是从她那儿听来的，不然的话，她就再也不跟伊迪说话了。

She had lied in the beginning of the relationship by understating her own weight by 150 pounds.

然而她在一开始就说了谎，她把自己的体重说成是150磅。

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。