People are encouraged to have a tug-of-war with the animals or lie on the ground and have the elephants walk over them.

人们被鼓励去和动物进行拔河比赛，或者躺在地上，让大象从上面走过。

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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。

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“As the global economy grows, so will its thirst...many more conflicts lie over the horizon,” he said, after deploring the fact that “too often, where we need water, we find guns.”

“随着经济不断增长，全球范围内的缺水困局将愈加严重……越来越多与水相关的地区（国际）纷争很可能即将发生”。 此前，他已公开谴责那种为淡水资源不惜大动干戈的野蛮行径，“缺水之处，兵燹连连。”

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