He has it exactly right. OK? Is this smaller than that? No. Now that's a slight lie.

不，这是一个小谎言，抱歉,是一个小错误，如果我要这么说。

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Okay, so you caught me in a small white lie for pedagogical sake.

好的，所以你捕捉到我,以教育目的用了个善意的谎言。

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You're a better liar, more generally, if you believe the lie that you're telling.

一个行骗高手在通常情况下，会对自己所说的谎言深信不疑。

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A lie, all lies.

谎言，全是谎言。

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B A metaphor is what we call a poetic lie. Everybody knows A is not B.

隐喻就是我们所指的诗化的谎言，人人都知道A不是。

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So not only is there evolutionary pressure for me to lie to you, for me to persuade you for instance, that if we're going to have a conflict- if you are threatening me " "Don't threaten me, I am not the sort of man you could screw around with" But there's evolutionary pressure for you to look and say, "No. You are the sort of man you could screw around with.

因此，不仅存在着要求我对你说谎,的进化压力，比如，如果我们之间存有冲突-,当你威胁我时,我会说“别吓唬我，我可不是吃素“,而且还存在着要求你辨别谎言的进化压力,你会说，“不，你肯定不行。

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