It was simple enough, in those old days, to define with approximate accuracy when a given statement ceased to be the truth and became a lie.
在过去，要近似准确地界定一个特定声明由真理变为谎言，是很简单的。
It ain't a lie, auntie; it's the truth.
那不是一个谎言，姨妈。这是事实。
It's a sad fact of life: lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
生活中有一个可悲的事实：谎言是谎言，但有时真相也会撒谎。
When asked straightforwardly, people tend to lie or shade the truth when the subject is sex, money or employment.
当被直接问到涉及性、金钱或工作的话题时，人们往往会撒谎或掩盖真相。
I speak no lie, but only the truth!
我不说谎话，只说真话！
Smith says, "Kids of all ages who expect that a parent would feel happy about a child's confession are more likely to tell the truth rather than lie."
史密斯说：“所有年龄段的孩子，认为父母会对孩子的坦诚感到高兴的话，更有可能说真话而不是撒谎。”
It seemed to him that truth would be safer than a lie.
在他看来，说真话会比说谎安全。
Get into the habit of telling the truth, and you will find it really hard to tell a lie.
养成说真话的习惯，你就会发现说谎真的很难。
If we use words that can deceive others, we tell a lie; and Ted's lie was a bad one, for it sounded so like the truth.
如果我们使用可以欺骗他人的话语，我们就是在说谎；泰德的谎言很糟糕，因为它听起来很像真的。
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
真假参半的谎言最险恶。
An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth.
一个笨拙脆弱而有破绽的谎言是你们应该不断学会避免的东西；诸如此类的谎言比起一个普通事实来，决不具有更加真实的永恒性。
Truth invites the journalist's lie.
真理却遭来记者的谎言。
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised.
他们将神的真实变为虚谎，去敬拜事奉受造之物，不敬奉那造物的主。主乃是可称颂的，直到永远。
And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did.
然而，他天生热爱真理，厌恶谎言，为旁人所不及。
Or I know the rule is don't lie, but telling the truth now might endanger an innocent person.
或者我知道规定说不能说谎，但现在说实话可能会使一个无辜的人陷入危险。
I hate to lie, but, back then, I hated telling the truth more.
我讨厌说谎，但是，当时我更讨厌说出真相。
The truth is a fitness game needs to lie to you to be a game.
事实是，一个健身游戏之所以称之为游戏，它需要向你说谎。
I don't know. It seems the only truth is money and I think money is a lie.
我不知道该怎么说，看起来，唯一的真相就是金钱，而我认为金钱只会说谎。
Does the truth lie somewhere in between?
真相会不会就在这两者之间？
While most applicants are honest, there are some who will stretch the truth, or, in some cases, lie outright in order to get a job.
尽管大部分的求职者是诚实的，但是还是存在一些不诚实的人。或者有时候他们说谎只是为了获得工作。
They then had two options: to lie about what colour their disks were, or tell the truth.
接着他们有两种选择：说出碟子真实的颜色或者撒谎。
In the answer to this seemingly mundane question may lie an important truth about our behaviour in groups.
对这些看似平淡无奇的问题的回答，可能揭示一个人们在团队中行为的重要真理。
Because they are afraid that we would leave, they would lie to us if they thought the truth would make us angry.
由于学校总是担心我们会走人，所以当学校觉得如果让我们了解真相我们会生气的时候，还会说些谎话来哄我们。
To sum up, one should think before speaking, even when it means deciding between the truth and a lie.
总之，开口说话之前应该先思考，即使这就意味着必须决定要说实话还是要说谎。
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
重复并不能把谎言变成真理。
Those who don’t practice because they never take any social risks, never learn how to discern lie from truth.
那些没有经过实践的人永远学不会如何区分谎言和真话，因为他们从来不冒任何社会风险。
When you live a life of deception you get to be very good at it; a well-constructed lie is a lot more useful than the truth.
当你生活在一个被谎言包围的世界中于是你定会非常善于此；一个有着完美构建的谎言往往要比真话有用的多。
Sometimes people do not want to accept the fact that they do not know the truth and hence they lie.
有时候人们说谎是因为他们不想接受他们不知道实情的事实。
If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.
我们若说是与神相交，却仍在黑暗里行，就是说谎话，不行真理了。
If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.
我们若说是与神相交，却仍在黑暗里行，就是说谎话，不行真理了。
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