This research investigated 291 7 -, 9 -, and 11-year-old children's understanding and moral evaluation of lying and truth-telling in the context of benefiting a group or an individual.

研究探讨了291名7、9、11岁小学儿童在为集体或为个人情境下对说谎或说真话的理解和道德评价。

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If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

我既然将真理告诉你们，为什么不信我呢？

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Finally telling the truth was a great weight off my shoulders.

最后讲了实话使我如释重负。

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That is to say that when we think we're telling the truth we're actually using worn-out figures of speech.

也就是说我们认为我们在讲述真理的时候,我们实际上却在使用一些陈腐的修辞手法。

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Now, before I get off the topic of the education, let me do a little more truth-telling.

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This week of new or enhanced suspicions had best lead to months of greater transparency and truth-telling, or much shared global progress is at risk.

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And that the Keynesian view of interest rates holds that they are the result of chaotic animal spirits and do not fulfill a truth-telling function.

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