When the magistrate asked Wang what had happened, he answered, "Zhou said that there were fresh red dates in it when he gave me the jar a year ago." The magistrate examined the jar and the fresh red dates in it carefully. Then he said: "Bring the ingots back, Wang Wu!" How did the county magistrate infer that Wang was lying?

县令问王是怎么回事，王回答说：“一年前给我的时候，周说这罐子里有新鲜的红枣。”县令仔细地检查了坛子和里面新鲜的红枣。然后他说：“王五，把金锭拿回来！”县令是怎么推断王在撒谎的？

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When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents attempted to find a way to deal with the catastrophe that had happened to their lives.

两个月后，当威尔逊出院回家时，他的父母试图找到一种方法来应对发生在他们生活中的这场灾难。

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That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one grad from Harvard, who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation.

上世纪70年代中期，他们就犯过那样的错误，当时他们从哈佛大学招募了一名第一名的毕业生，这名毕业生恰好是一名女性，也是税务方面的奇才。

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When Hank sang a sad song, those who listened knew it was about something that had happened to him.

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Katie Koczynski - a former U.S.skeleton competitor - said Friday that she had an idea that Demong might pop the question, but when it happened she was really surprised.

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The explanation appears to be that the beneficial changes that happened early in the experiment, when the viruses were least well-suited to their environment, had bigger effects than those that happened later, when they were well adapted.

ECONOMIST: Viral evolution

In Los Angeles, he had seen what happened when that trust was broken by corrupt officers.

NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe

The best response he could muster was that he was glad Mr. Ortega didn't personally blame him for things that had happened when he was 3 months old.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Making hash of Honduras