时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   小时候老师就教育我们要诚实,长大了才发现世界上没有人不说谎,只是谎话大小不同。损人利己和损人不利己的撒谎都会被人唾骂。无伤大雅、不伤害别人的小小谎言还可以勉强接受。今天我们要来学的就是这种“无伤大雅的小谎言”的表达:fib和white lie。


  Johnny tells everybody he got an A for every subject last term. I'm afraid he's telling a fib - I happen to know he got at least one B, but he's too embarrassed 1 to admit 2 it.
  Johnny告诉大家自己上学期门门功课都得了A,恐怕他撒了个小谎,我碰巧知道他至少有一个B。他只是不好意思承认。
  Johnny虽然得了一个B,但是他还可以算是个优秀生。他撒谎也许是因为别人对他期望过高,认为他样样都该得A,再说他的谎话也不会损害他人。这样看来fib是无关紧要的小谎。
  Fib是无伤大雅的小谎,有一种fib的动机甚至更容易被理解,是出于礼貌或者为了不伤害他人的感情。这种清白无辜的谎言就称为 white lie。 White lie是动机善良的谎话。换句话说,虽然没说实话,但是至少有理由这样做。
  I told Sally a white lie when she asked me how I liked her new party dress. I didn't like the color or the design but when I saw how happy she was with it, I told her it looked great.
  当Sally问我喜不喜欢她的新宴会服的时候,我对Sally撒了个无辜的谎言,其实我并不喜欢那件衣服的颜色和设计,但我看到Sally对那衣服的满意劲儿,我就告诉Sally那衣服真漂亮。
  由此大家知道white lie就是出于好意而说的善意的小谎话,怎么样?明白了吗?

adj.尴尬的,不好意思的
  • He was very embarrassed to hear people speak so highly of him.他听见别人这样夸他,感到很难为情。
  • He is somewhat embarrassed.他稍微有点窘迫。
vt.承认,供认;准许…进入,准许...加入
  • He will never admit to me that he is lazy.他不会向我承认他懒惰。
  • If you're wrong,you should admit it.错了就要认账。
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.pl
absolute plotter control
accelerated ag(e)ing test
Alula-Fartak Trench
antiparamagnon
apalachee
armor-clad switch
astrophotogram
blow-dried
bromine cyan
bus-tickets
cellar deck
Chloralvan
cinesthesia
clarofusite
closterium gracile
coco de macao
columba janthina janthina
conductive fabric
conformationally
corridors of power
day-to-day maintenance
deficiency of spleen qi
delft-blue
departed saint
disturbers
dublins
epitheca
Fourneau 309
Fourneyron wheel
frostburn
geochemical reconnaisance
Gramade
hand shoveling of coal
hayel
his serum water
Huillapima
I. I. P.
idleful
inequable
interactions
iso container dimensions
Jewish holy day
LAA,L.A.A.
liquefied-pertroleum-gas engine
liquidi
manah
marimba gong
microlymphocytotoxicity
non-responders
off - shore wind
Ombai, Pulau
orange color
papse
pepsinuria
pipe quenching
plain-table
plastic sheeting
pneumonic tropica
predilects
preinjury
privy purse
Punch-and Judy
pyreticosis
R/AMP
rami musculares parasympathici (partis rhombencephalic?)
randwick
recoinings
redomiciles
refreshment trolley service
registered player
relative kinetic energy
resources and capabilities
right-centre
rotational moulding
rubber-resin alloy
search-stopping mechanism
shepherdings
Shetland pony
shipboard gravimeter
side-shake digger
span of slab
start-stop signal
strength of bladed disk
sulfonamide anemia
sybile
Synanthae
tabacism pulmonum
terre-tenant
thyro-laryngeal artery(or anterior thyroid artery)
triheptin
Tuapi
twisted-pair transmission line
unavoidable hazards
variable-depth sonar (vds)
veccia
violary
water control system
woggling
woundless
wrinkled pig leather
zellermayer