A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
谎言
Falsehood
Falsehood travels and grows.
谎言会四处传播和成长。
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
谎言是永恒的春天。
Lies and Latin go round the world.
谎言和拉丁语传遍世界。
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
谎言是懦弱,真理是勇气。
Lies and gossip have a wretched offspring.
谎言和流言蜚语会生出不幸的后代。
Falsehood never tires of going round about.
谎言永不厌倦四处传播。
Better suffer for truth, than prosper by falsehood.
宁可为真理受苦,不因虚假得利。
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
真理必浮于谎言之上,犹如油浮于水面。
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。
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
用彬彬有礼的态度对待谎言是一种侮辱。
Falsehood, like a nettle, stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻,玩弄它的人会被它刺痛。
You may shut your doors against a thief, but not against a liar.
你们可以关上门,防备盗贼,却不能防备说谎话的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
和平的道乃是这样:以善除恶,以真理除假,以爱除恨。
What's Done Can't Be Undone: In Life There Are Some Things Once Done Or Decisions Once Made Cannot Be changed; Malicious Words Once Uttered Or Harmful Actions Once Done Cannot Be Taken Back.
做过的事是无法挽回的:在生活中,有些事情一旦做了就无法挽回,有些决定一旦做了就无法改变;恶意的话一旦说出口,有害的行为一旦做了,就不能收回。
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。
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
谎言不仅与真理不一致,而且常常彼此争吵。
Falsehood is the Devil's daughter, and speaks her father's tongue.
谎言是魔鬼的女儿,说的是她父亲的舌头。
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
陈述的准确性是真理的首要要素之一;不准确近乎谎言。