He didn't say anything immediately, but he let me in on a little secret after that person left the room - it was all a big lie. Carrots do not improve your eyesight.

爷爷偶然听到别人教育我胡萝卜可以提高视力，他当时没有说什么，不过等那人离开房间后，爷爷告诉我了一个小秘密：胡萝卜提高视力是个大谎话！

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Unfortunately, it was all built on a lie.

不幸地是，一切都建立在谎言之上。

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But even as he said it, he was shaking his head, and Sister Carlotta was grinning and shaking her head, too, so that they would know that this was all a lie. A cover story.

然而他边说边摇头，卡萝塔修女也笑着摇头，于是他们明白了这些都是假话，一个掩护故事。

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New York (CNN) -- A man who accused a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach of sexually molesting him as a child said Friday that it was all a lie.

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Studying it may also help us understand the rise of similar conceits that lack any plausible evidence--the belief that evolution could not have happened, that the moon landing was a hoax and, far more egregious, that the Holocaust was a lie and all evidence of it is the result of a massive conspiracy.

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