Like you are just making things up and lying to yourself.

就像你只不过是在编故事，自欺欺人而已。

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The truth is, most experience comes from making things up as you go along.

事实上，大部分的经验来自你边做事边积累。

youdao

You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

你不知道下一秒会发生什么，大多时候你只能做到随机应变。

youdao

Everyone is making things up as they go along, often with no set procedures to fall back on.

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"They are just making things up and selling their predictions, " Mr. Kengkard, wearing a leopard-skin pattern hat, said in one recent TV appearance.

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Since the EPA is making things up, the rational way to set the mandate would be to fine the cellulosic folks for a lack of mermaids and rebate the money to consumers who are paying higher prices because the oil companies can't do the impossible and buy an imaginary fuel.

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