A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
说谎
Lying
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
如果我告诉你，作为一名黑人棒球运动员，我没有经历过比队友更糟糕的时期，那我就是在说谎。
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
一个男孩可以从狗身上学到很多东西:服从、忠诚，以及在躺下之前转三圈的重要性。
Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can’t think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you’re not thinking hard enough.
说谎是弱者的专利。如果你想不出一个真实的方法来解决你的问题，你就想得不够努力。
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
一个允许自己撒一次谎的人，发现第二次和第三次更容易，直到最后成为习惯。
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
躺在床上是一种完美的、至高无上的体验，只要你有一支足够长的彩色铅笔在天花板上画画。
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.
诚实从来没有被列入政治美德，谎言一直被认为是政治交易的正当工具。
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
你可以一直愚弄一些人，也可以在一段时间内愚弄所有的人，但你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。
A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
历史学家要想揭示真相，就必须撒谎。他常常必须把事实放大，否则读者就看不清了。
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
不过，我喜欢人们渴望与他人建立联系。他们迫切地想知道你没有欺骗他们或误导他们。
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
我是个功利主义者，所以我不认为反对说谎的规则是绝对的;它总是受制于一些凌驾于它之上的实用程序，这可能会阻止它的运行。
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
真相的最大敌人往往不是谎言——故意的、做作的、不诚实的——而是神话——持久的、有说服力的、不切实际的
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
我想让读者真正不确定她说的是真话还是谎话。这意味着要让她既同情她，又不同情她，这并不容易。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.
谎言是没有意义的，除非真相被认为是危险的。
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
好奇心等待着每一个秘密。
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我，我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!
When in doubt, tell the truth.
如有疑问，就说真话。
Falsehood travels and grows.
谎言会四处传播和成长。
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
魔术是一种你说谎并告诉别人你在说谎的艺术形式。