It 's a hard decision either way–lying to ourselves is as painful as the risk of losing one of the most important people in our lives.

无论选哪个，这都是个艰难的抉择，因为欺骗自己的感情同可能会失去生活中最重要的人，两者都让人痛心。

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Because if you just have random bones lying around, it's hard for someone to come in and look at it and understand what the animal looked like in its entirety.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

And lying behind this idea, I think, is the claim, the intuition, that it's a presumption to judge whose pleasures are intrinsically higher or worthier or better.

我认为这一观点暗含了一种主张，认为从本质上判定，谁的快乐,更高级，更有价值，或更好是非常无礼的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But it's just lying to you to pretend that that's excellence in philosophy.

但是这只是在你唬自己假装,你精通哲学。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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"It's just lying, " he'd told me morosely, shaking his head.

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But now we're getting more into the terms of the, you know, the cover issues, the surface issues, and I think that we need to understand more of what's lying underneath it.

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