There is an old Chinese story which is about little girl who went out to fish.

中国有一个古老的故事，讲的是一个去捕鱼的小女孩。

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The poor man was a little fish caught in a powerful net; he changed his story.

这个可怜的人，就像条可怜的小鱼，被囚在一张强有力的网中；他改变了供词。

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2: When the fisherman told people in the town he had seen a beautiful mermaid on a rock in the river, they knew it was just a fish story.

他说：那个渔夫告诉镇上的人他曾经看到一条美人鱼。

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"It's really a show about acclamation, more than anything, " executive producer Joe Lawson said of what he sees as a fish-out-of-water story.

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Whalen loves a good fish story, especially one the thick-armed, 41-year-old insurance broker from Capistrano Beach, Calif. lives to tell.

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There is a fundamental difference between using a private investigator at any given time to turn around a story on tittle-tattle, or to fish for stories and monitor people's lives, and to make a careful, considered decision to carry out a breach of the law in order to expose wrongdoing.

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