A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
谎言
Lies
If you stop telling lies about me, i'll stop telling the truth about you.
如果你停止对我说谎,我也将停止对你说真话。
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
但善意的谎言也有人性。每个人都这样。
I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
我冒昧地预言,摆在我们面前的将是一个痛苦而邪恶的时代。
Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
优势在于比竞争对手更能预测未来。
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
不可战胜在于防御;进攻胜利的可能性。
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
学习历史,学习历史。历史蕴藏着一切治国之道。
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
自传所讲的谎言比除了最放纵自己的小说之外的所有小说都要多。
Lies may be easier to tell and hear but they don't make the truth disappear.
谎言可能更容易说出来和听到,但它们不会让真相消失。
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth.
有些谎言,在适当的情况下,是唯一的真理。
I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.
我尽量不去过多地阅读社交网络。我发现疯狂是谎言。
Here lies a civil servant. He was civil To everyone, and servant to the devil.
这里躺着一位公务员。他对每个人都彬彬有礼,是魔鬼的仆人。
Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
当一个女孩爱上说谎的人的时候,谎言听起来非常漂亮。
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
毕竟,什么是谎言?这不过是假面舞会里的事实。
People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
人们不会因为谎言而把你的包扔出窗外;他们因为真理而抛弃了他们。
People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
人们会说你的坏话,因为只有这样,他们微不足道的自己才能比你感觉更好。
The dog that fetches will carry.
狗叼东西就背东西。
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
当代真正伟大的形式在于建立在工作精神基础上的文明。
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
在战争中,真相是如此珍贵,她应该永远有一个谎言的保镖。