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。

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.

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善意的谎言(各种各样)被用于我们日常的行为方式中，而且如果什么事情都说实话可能会令人感到沮丧，浪费时间，甚至是让人心烦。

Little white lies (of all sorts) are tossed our way daily, and getting to the truth of the matter can be frustrating, time-consuming, even upsetting.

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我们把这一项叫做“反应潜伏期”，它的意思是：编织谎言需要非常多的脑力，这样，在你的提问和别人的回答之间就会有一段时间滞差。

We call this one 'response latency' and it means that, because it takes a lot of brainpower to concoct a lie, there may be a time lag between you asking a question and the other person answering.

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