Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

夸张是谎言的近亲,几乎同样应该受到谴责。

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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

谎言最成功的时候,莫过于它用真理当鱼饵勾住自己的鱼钩;没有比那些有时是正确的手表更能有效地欺骗佩戴者的了。

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

因此,重合法的许多应用将在核物理的大领域中被发现,我们可以毫不夸张地说,这种方法是现代核物理学家的基本工具之一。

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

对于一个作家,大多数读者相信双重标准:他们可能经常对他不忠,但他必须永远,永远不要对他们不忠。

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

我总是对自己的写作方式非常坦率,而且我总是使用幽默作家使用的工具,比如夸张。

If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men.

如果谎言是拉丁文,那就会有许多学者。

A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend.

有钱的小丑既不认识亲戚也不认识朋友。