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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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。

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The fact is that people lie for many reasons.

事实上，人们说谎的原因有很多。

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I did not move a muscle for a whole hour. During that time, I did not hear him lie down.

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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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Then, 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.

因此当大量的血液凝固，阻塞了战车前进的轮之际，我就要起身，用甘甜清澈的井水刷洗猩红，甚至是用深深隐藏在污点后的事实。

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Criminal penalties would lie for abuse of information gotten pursuant to the form.

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Parents who lie for convenience's sake, by calling in "sick" at work to attend a sporting event, for example, suggest truthfulness doesn't matter.

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