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说谎
Lying
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
但人类的行为有时是一种防御，一种隐藏动机和思想的方式，因为语言可以是一种隐藏思想和阻止交流的方式。
Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.
谎言往往比现实更可信，更能吸引理性，因为说谎者有很大的优势，能够事先知道听众希望或期待听到什么。
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
我认为，当孩子们日益增长的观察力和辨别能力激起他们对事物的渴望时，用谎言和胡言乱语来搪塞他们是大错特错的。
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
不出所料，唾液腺神经装置的发现立即促使生理学家在消化道深处的其他腺体中寻找类似的装置。
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.
当我们难过的时候，我们的声带会绷紧，我们不能说话。当我撒谎的时候——嗯，我不能撒谎，因为同样的事情也会发生——所有认识我的人都知道，当我开始尖叫的时候，我已经开始撒谎了。
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
历史上最惨痛的教训之一是:如果我们被愚弄的时间足够长，我们往往会拒绝任何有关这种欺骗的证据。竹竿把我们捉住了。一旦你让一个骗子控制了你，你几乎永远不会再得到它。
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!
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.
我晚上经常难以入睡，所以当我躺在床上时，我就会想故事。这就是我思考的地方。我在阅读的时候也会得到很多想法——有时候读别人的故事会让我想起我自己的故事。
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
如果你一旦丧失了同胞们的信任，你就永远无法重新获得他们的尊重和尊重。的确，有时候你可能会愚弄所有的人;你甚至可以一直愚弄一些人;但是你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。
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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。
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。
Being honest to someone's face doesn't mean squat if you end up lying behind their back.
对别人的脸诚实并不意味着你要蹲着，如果你最终躺在他们背后。
If you're lying, you're lying.
如果你在说谎，那你就是在说谎。
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
人们遭受的最大欺骗来自他们自己的意见。
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
说谎就像酗酒。你总是在恢复。