This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.
这意味着，如果你给人们很多机会让其为了自己的利益而说谎，他们会从小谎言开始，而随着时间的推移，谎言会越来越大。
The fact is that people lie for many reasons.
事实上，人们说谎的原因有很多。
People lie for many reasons, both good and bad.
人们说谎的原因有很多，有好的也有坏的。
I'd lie for hours examining them.
我会趴在地上对它们研究上几个小时。
They may have staff or underlings lie for them, claiming illness such as the flu or a family emergency.
他们可能会让职员或下属为他们撒谎，生成得了流感卧病在床或是家里有什么紧急情况。
If he tell a lie for the weight of goods, he will be amerced. What is worse, this will affect the time of shipment.
如果周先生谎报重量被查验到，需要接受罚款还会影响装运的时间。
Once more, Starr had succeeded in protecting lawbreakers who played ball with him even as he indicted innocent people who would not lie for him.
斯塔尔又一次成功地保护了和他合作的违法者，即使他起诉的是一个不愿为了他说谎的无辜的人。
He claims that when a person is telling a lie for the first time and it's a big one, he can detect the lie with near-perfect accuracy — and so can you.
他宣称，当一个人第一次说谎并且是一个大谎的时候，他能够以几近完全的精确率探测出谎言来，而且你也能够这样。
"We've been testing people'sability to discern a lie for 15 years now and haven't noticed any real changeover that time," he says in a telephone interview.
“我们已经花了15年测试大众鉴别谎言的能力，而且没有发现任何变化。”他在电话访问中说道。
These sellers will usually tell a lie for some customers, such as factories have acquaintances, special channels, and foreign trade companies have friends like liars.
这些卖家通常都会编一些谎话告诉顾客，比如，工厂里有熟人，特殊渠道，外贸公司有朋友之类的谎话。
Here's the Catch: the Big lie shows up in your thoughts in a myriad of forms that may seem 'real' unmasked to you because you have entertained the lie for so long, it seems like reality.
记住这一招：头脑中存在各种形式的大谎言，看起来都非常真实。人们被愚弄太久，所以谎言似乎成了事实。
To close her defense, she called Julie Hiatt Steele, who testified that Starr had done exactly that to her, indicting her after she twice refused to lie for him in a grand jury proceeding.
在辩护结束前，她请出了朱莉·希亚特·斯蒂尔，后者证明斯塔尔对她的做法也是如出一辙，在两次拒绝帮他在大陪审团前作伪证之后，斯塔尔就对她进行了指控。
"I lost them," answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket.
“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。
If you lie in bed for eight hours, you may have rested, but you can still feel exhausted the next day.
如果你在床上躺了8个小时，你可能得到了休息，但第二天仍然会感到疲惫。
Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night.
警官们埋伏起来等待捉拿那些夜间悄悄追踪作案对象的黑帮成员。
The entry for 'polygraph' is cross-referred to the entry for 'lie detector'.
词条polygraph下注有指向词条lie detector的参照项。
Surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep, because your brain is thinking about work.
所有读到这篇文章的人肯定都有过这样的经历：因为脑子在想着工作，躺在床上好几个小时都无法入睡。
There are times when people do lie to children—about Santa Claus, for example, but also in less innocuous situations.
有些时候，人们也对孩子们撒谎——比如关于圣诞老人的事，但是通常是无害的情况下。
While careful planning for the afterlife may lie buried underground in Cairo, it is noise and confusion on the streets.
虽然对来世的周密计划可能被埋在开罗的地下，但街道上却是喧嚣和混乱。
When much blood had clogged their chariot wheels, I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, even with truths that lie too deep for taint.
当大量的血液阻塞了马车的车轮之际，我就要起身，用甘甜的井水刷洗它们，甚至是用深深隐藏在污点后的事实。
The collapse of their isolated civilization, Diamond writes, is a "worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future".
戴蒙德写道，他们的孤立文明的崩溃，是“我们未来可能面临的最糟糕的情况”。
When they sleep, they seldom lie down and sleep for minutes at a time, since it's difficult for them to get up again and it's dangerous in the wild.
当它们睡觉的时候，它们很少躺下来一次睡上几分钟，因为它们很难再起来，在野外这是很危险的。
I lie still for a minute until I can breathe normally, then stretch my arms out to prop myself up.
我静静地躺了一会儿直到我能正常呼吸，然后伸出胳膊把自己支撑起来。
I often lie on it for a short break at noon.
中午我经常躺在上面休息一会儿。
It is very relaxing for me to lie on a soft sofa after a long time of study.
经过长时间的学习，躺在柔软的沙发上让我很放松。
She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.
她摔伤了脊椎，医生让她平躺一个月以便恢复。
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。
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。
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