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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学英语单词
A.C.three-phase three-wire system with directly earthed neutral
acronycidine
act of procedure
ADBMS
adopting
Almen's test
as red as a turkey cock
Asoteriba
avenor
avouchments
B class ship
Barkhausen noise analysis
be in line to the throne
beneficial owner of the interest
caryogenesis
central clearing system
centring mark
chemical reflex
chemosterilize
coluccis
compusas
controlled surface pore glass
conventional spelling
Crotto
cutcher
deduping
denuclearize
dhyana
diapirically
dichohyphidia
Disley
dog down
Dracocephalum paulsenii
draw water to one's own mill
empowerment-zone
ethnobotanics
first-aid chest
flaming speed
force feed lubricator
four wave mixing
free-running sawtooth generator
give sb a ring
glomerations
guided missile launching set
gyprocs
head-stall
herdbeasts
heterolysosone
hittorf method
hydroxyethylmethyl-cellulose
image repetition
individual traveler
kurnools
less-than-carload lot
LRIP
lurkings
martin bubers
Micawber threshold
midget tossing
monospasm
nanoplate
neoagarotetraose
NP185
out-page access
paracentesis
parnet
passivation film
permuted title index
planetary wave
polydoraiosis
polystyrene (ps)
praetorians
protistologies
pyretolysis
recording hygrometer
regests
reticulate sculpture
Rieman surface
robopet
roll booster
sakowitz
sambres
signal sorting
simeens
single section artificial line
skeletochronology
slow neutron elastic scattering
source moment
spiral-type seed grader
St-Aubin
stopped engine landing
technology of ocean energy exploitation
temporal properties
ternery
Tickell's
turbine reheater
vertical spinning
Wadsworth Moor
water jacketed copper crucible
Wilson's warbler
windshield heater
Yankee corn