We first met in 1982, no, I tell a lie, it was 1983.

我们初次见面是在1982年，不，我说错了，是1983年。

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When I tell a lie, she thinks I should be a politician.

我撒了个小谎，她就认为我应该从政。

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I cannot think he should tell a lie!

我想不到他竟然说谎！

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As a boy George Washington supposedly told his father: "I cannot tell a lie.

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"We go in and we tell a lie to the North Koreans, and I believe that's journalistically fine and proper, " he said, acknowledging that the North Korean government is now "very angry" about what happened.

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To tell you I had expected this level of physical prowess when I signed up to write this story would be a blatant lie.

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