谎言

His lies were eventually exposed but not fast andenough to dissuade Mercator from giving both continents in the New World the name of America on his influential map of the world.

他的谎言终被揭穿，却已为时晚矣，并且真相传播地也不够广泛，墨卡托已经在他著名的世界地图上把新世界两块大陆命名为美洲。

You are either honest or dishonest. There is no middle point.

一个小小的谎言，你就永远不会是诚实的。

It was only in 1990 under Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet Union finally admitted what Poles and their friends had maintained all along.

这件事一直到1990年戈尔巴乔夫上台后，苏联政府才最终承认了Poles和他们的朋友们维持至现在的谎言。

Cows" is used figuratively to mean "all excuses, pretexts, reasons, lies, explanations, fears and misbelief, which are bound up with mediocrity and hinder people from fulfilling an aim they hope for and living the life they should have.

奶牛"的寓意被作者引申为"所有的借口、托辞、理由、谎言、合理化解释、恐惧和错误信念，正是它们将我们与平庸生活捆绑在一起，阻碍了我们去实现真正想要追求并应该获得的理想生活。

And "the cow", in the author's view, is the biggest cause to mediocracy, thus the meaning of 'cow' is extended by the author to 'all excuses, pretexts, reasons, justification, fear and misbelief', the very things that bind us to mediocracy and hinder the way we pursue our desired ideal life and the life we deserve.

在作者看来，一个人甘于平庸的最大诱因就是那些"奶牛"的存在。"奶牛"的寓意被作者引申为"所有的借口、托辞、理由、谎言、合理化解释、恐惧和错误信念"，正是它们将我们与平庸生活捆绑在一起，阻碍了我们去实现真正想要追求并应该获得的理想生活。

Cows" is used figuratively to mean "all excuses, pretexts, reasons, lies, explanations, fears and misbelief, which are inseparably bound up with mediocrity and hinder people from fulfilling an aim they hope for and living the life they should have.

奶牛"的寓意被作者引申为"所有的借口、托辞、理由、谎言、合理化解释、恐惧和错误信念，正是它们将我们与平庸生活捆绑在一起，阻碍了我们去实现真正想要追求并应该获得的理想生活。

However the pretense that there no distinction between Formosan and Mainlander and that Republica of China is a free democratic society in our American sense is to consciously misinform.

但是隐瞒台湾人与大陆人差别的事实，以及中华民国享有美国式自由民主的谎言，则我认为贝克小姐是有意在误导听众。

You have told us in an earlier message that almost all of this is misinformation.

而在之前更早的消息里告诉我们这些都是谎言。

They were told that lies include things like falsely agreeing with others and the misrepresentation of feelings.

研究人员还告知，对他人意见的苟同以及对情感的不实陈述都属于谎言的范围。

This is because the mob is made up of cynics; for them, everything is a lie anyway.

这是因为这些乌合之众是由一些愤世嫉俗的人组成，无论怎样，任何人在他们看来都是一个谎言。

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。