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
-mia
Aalenian Stage
acid wave
aconite root
advail
aerodynamic phenomenon
agency of childrens self-government
air resources
alpha-hydroxy acid
alternate routing code
ammunition controlled supply rate
anti creeper
apolar quadrics
aspectually
attested copy
auto-oxidation chemiluminescence
balanced solution
be a native of
Been in the wars
bennettitaless
betterness
blue-chip company
cablecos
career change
categised
clandestine immigration
clearance-volume
close-spaced well
coeliac
color plexer
connected admission control
d'allura
Dagebüll
detention-camp
deterministic zero-sided Lindenmayer system
dibblers
differential backup
dimensional for-mula
double shrouded impeller type sandpump
downcurrents
embryo crystal
fatty acyl-CoA-dehydrogenase
fix a millstone round one's neck
forespace
fusen
gear tester
glabratolide
graph of linear function
hidden constraint
hippocampus kuda
homework problem
IM - instant message
indesert
infauna
inlet sampling point
japanese spurges
keyboard equivalent
language based architecture
lattice chain
launching work
leaky mutation
let in for
line alternation buffer
lussi
man-overboard signal
maximum extent of damage
memory capability
Merchants Staplers
metacrystalline
modern democracy
Myxosoma
Network Control Protocol
nonshrinking
NUC
office document processing system
oryctologists
parallelepipedons
penetration surface treatment
petcheys
phenylo boric acid
pissing away
placeables
possessiveness
purse-ring
rigidity of law
running-light test
sansuis
schecter
Schroeder-Bernstein theorem
seventh-power law
spacefilling curve
springwell
St Anne I.
system services control point
Tan-shui
Tomakomai
two-bar fabric
tyster
ultrasonic thickness measurement
yardgoods machine
yolk coal
zundererz (jamesonite)