小声地说个谎，或者离去。
一般来说，如果你相信自己说的谎，你就是一个更好的说谎者。
You're a better liar, more generally, if you believe the lie that you're telling.
“我把它们丢了。”皮诺乔回答说，但他撒了个谎，因为他把它们装在口袋里了。
"I lost them," answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket.
这个人说：“我爸爸妈妈总是教我绝对不能说谎话。因此，每当我说一点谎，即便是为了让某人感到好受一点而说谎的时候，我都好像做错了事一样。” 今天我们讲了两个和黑和白，也就是 black and white 有关的俗语。它们是a black sheep 和 a white lie。「美国习惯用语」第二十八讲就到里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。
My mother and dad taught me never to tell a lie. So I feel guilty every time I tell even a little white lie, although I do it just to make somebody feel better.
他说，如果孩子只是说个小谎的话，大人是无需担心的。
He said: 'Parents should not be alarmed if their child tells a fib.
现在，非常坦率地说，那就是一个弥天大谎。
医生知道詹姆斯的病情很严重，但为了安慰他，他撒了个小谎，说他很快便会复原。
The doctor knew that James was very ill.However,to make him feel better,he told him a white lie that he would recover soon.
那是个安静、严肃、友好、冷淡，从来不曾说过谎的人，我们不敢说她是个妇人。
She was a person — we dare not say a woman — who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied.
举一个小例子来说：当觉察到别人说谎时，我们是多么地蔑视他啊！但是，谁能够说自从未说过谎？
To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?
事实上，很多我们说的谎都显示了自己是一个令人愉快而又适应能力强的人。
In fact many of our lies show what nice, well-adjusted people we are.
“他不来了，”我插嘴说，撒了个谎。
一次一个朋友问我是否我自己割伤的，我甚至撒了谎，说‘不是。’
Once a friend asked me if I was cutting myself and I even lied and said 'no.'
他说，如果孩子只是说个小谎的话，大人是无需担心的。
He said: "Parents should not be alarmed if their child tells a fib."
我祖父是个很有道德的人，他一生中从未说过一次谎。
My grandfather was a very moral man; he never told a lie in his life.
其中一个小男孩回答他说，“我们捡到十美元，然后我们决定看谁撒的谎厉害就将这钱给谁。”
"One boy answers," we found a ten dollar bill and decided to give it to whoever tells the biggest lie.
一个男人说了一个谎。他说。
“有关我的年龄我撒了个谎，”小汤姆说。
一位女哲学家如是说：在你说出第一个谎后，说其它的谎将会变得更容易。
Sissela Bok warns us that, "After the first lies, others can come more easily."
很久以前，一个人撒了谎，他说：我曾经爬上过那座山去和那个龙斗争，后来我差点杀了它，但是我失手了，它很巨大很黑。
A long time ago, a man told a lie. He said: "I climbed that mountain to fight with the dragon, then I almost killed him, but I missed. And he was huge and black."
很久以前，一个人撒了谎，他说：我曾经爬上过那座山去和那个龙斗争，后来我差点杀了它，但是我失手了，它很巨大很黑。
A long time ago, a man told a lie. He said: "I climbed that mountain to fight with the dragon, then I almost killed him, but I missed. And he was huge and black."
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