Surely Jim wouldn't lie over a trifle like that.

吉姆当然不会为那样的小事说谎。

youdao

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth.

如果某个人一再复述同一个谎言，他终将信以为真。

youdao

We arrived there too late for the morning cars. We had, therefore, to lie over a day.

我们到那里太迟，没赶上早班车，只好耽搁一天。

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He thought the answer might lie in the numerous studies over the years that looked at diet and heart disease."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Well what can you do? Well you can promise miracles, there's very little control over these sorts of things, you can distort the science, you can lie about what you do and nobody will come after you.

那么你会做什么呢,你可以承诺奇迹,这很难给予控制,你可以歪曲科学,你可以说谎,隐瞒你的作为,也没有人会找你麻烦

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