Usually if you tell a lie, you have to tell another lie.

一般来说，如果你撒了一个谎，就需要撒另外一个谎言。

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If we use words that can deceive others, we tell a lie; and Ted's lie was a bad one, for it sounded so like the truth.

如果我们使用可以欺骗他人的话语，我们就是在说谎；泰德的谎言很糟糕，因为它听起来很像真的。

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My mother and dad taught me never to tell a lie. So I feel guilty every time I tell even a little white lie, although I do it just to make somebody feel better.

这个人说：“我爸爸妈妈总是教我绝对不能说谎话。因此，每当我说一点谎，即便是为了让某人感到好受一点而说谎的时候，我都好像做错了事一样。” 今天我们讲了两个和黑和白，也就是 black and white 有关的俗语。它们是 a black sheep 和 a white lie。「美国习惯用语」第二十八讲就到里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。

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

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If you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, it will become the truth, no matter how big the lie.

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She can describe a past incident and tell a lie, skills once thought to be exclusively human.

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