Roughly translates to "your promised reward is merely a fictitious motivator". Popularized by the game "Portal" (found on Half-Life 2's "Orange Box" game release for PC, X-Box 360, and PS3). During the game, an electronic voice encourages you to solve intricate puzzles using [cake] as a motivating perk. When you have "broken out" of the game's initial testing phase (from threat of death), you find scrawls on walls of the innards of the testing center warning you that "the cake is a lie".
> Employee #1: Yo, Dave, manager says we will probably get a promotion if we meet the sales expectations for this quarter.
> Employee #2: Yeah, so, don't get your hopes up on that one, Ed. The cake is a lie.
> Employee #1: Really, aw crap.

Pat-A-cake Pat-A-cake, pat-A-cake, baker's man! Bake us a cake just as fast as you can. Pat it and prick it and mark it with B. Put it in the oven for baby and me, Put it in the oven for baby and me, For baby and me, for baby and me. Pat-A-cake, pat-

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Text Is it ever proper for a medical doctor to lie to his patient? Should he tell a patient he is dying? These questions seem simple enough, but it is not so simple to give a satisfactory answer to them. Now a new light is shed on them. TO LIE OR NOT

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Don't we all want to have the cake and eat it? Diarmuid: Hi, and welcome to BBC Learning English. Im Diarmuid. Feifei: 大家好,我是冯菲菲。 Diarmuid: In this Real English programme well be looking at an English idiom. Feifei: 还有对应的汉语成语谚语

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We are always educated to be an honest person, especially to our parents. While the fact is that every kid will lie to their parents in their lives. For me, my parents are very strict, I am not allowed to go out at night, because the news always repo

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My eyes don't lie if rose is green and grass is red will you remember what i said baby don't forget before you regret stuck in my mind a needle through my head the light you shine into the night you take away my fright and for every time i see you i

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Lesson 151 Lie 1. He lied to me. 2. He told a white lie. 3. Why did you tell me a lie? 4. The doctor advised me to lie up for a week. 5. Go and lie down for a while. 6. I have lain awake all night thinking about the problems. 7. The difficulty lies i

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Brooklyn Decker: Two Truths And A Lie, Lie, Lie play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0011:10repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. JONATHAN

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You might expect a liar to struggle with eye contact, when lying through his teeth. But a study by University of Michigan researchers suggests that liars may look their questioners in the eye more often than people telling the truth. People who are l

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My eyes don't lie 歌手:卫兰 If rose is green and grass is red 如果玫瑰是绿色,青草是红色 Will you remember what I said 你是否会记得我说的一切 Baby dont forget before you regret BABY 在你后悔前请不要忘记 Stuck in

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今天我们要学的词是cakewalk。 Cakewalk, 意思是轻而易举的事情。 The upcoming election won't be a cakewalk for the reigning governor, 即将举行的选举对现任州长来说并非举手之劳。在本次世界杯中, Spain is t

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饶舌:Ace Hood - Loco Wit The Cake 相关介绍 :Ace Hood(Antoine McColister)出生在佛罗里达圣路易斯港。他成长在一个单亲家庭,他母亲在迈阿密Deerfield Beach区把它喂养大。当Ace Hood在一场足球比赛中受伤后

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痞子阿姆携手碧昂斯:Love The Way You Lie Artist:Eminem ft. Beyonce Song:Love The Way You Lie Just gonna stand there And watch me burn But that's alright Because I like The way it hurts Just gonna stand there And hear me cry But that's a

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Love The Way You Lie Just gonna stand there And watch me burn But that's alright Because I like The way it hurts Just gonna stand there And hear me cry But that's alright Because I love The way you lie I love the way you lie I love the way you lie I

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So many things to say, so many words to spell The way you make me feel I want my heart to tell No place to run and hide. Don't you know That I've been strong enough for loneliness I'm holding back the best (Chorus) Love will never lie even when you'r

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今天要讲的习惯用语都有一个主要的词Lie。我想大家都知道lie有好多不同的意思,但是在我们今天要介绍的两个习惯用语, lie都和撒谎这个意思无关。我们今天要学的第一个习惯用语是:lie l

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躺 lie,lay,lain,lie in bed again; 撒谎 lie,lied,lied,don't be a liar; 产蛋 lay,laid,laid,a hen laid an egg; 放置 A loy picked it up,and laid it in the bag.

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节奏布鲁斯:Cheryl Cole - Better to Lie 相关介绍 :切尔西天王阿什利-科尔的前妻谢莉尔近日推出了自己的最新专辑《Messy Little Raindrops》,在这张专辑的封面上,谢莉尔一身橙色与粉色相间的连衣裙

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Idiom: Lie through your teeth ( lies often ) Hit the book: Yoga Yogis Stretch Pose Yoga mat Hang out

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听你说谎的我伤不起:You Lie The Band Perry,蛮典型的乡村乐队,女主唱的声音不算很甜,但是很可爱,这首轻快活泼的You Lie唱的是对一个说谎成性的人百般无奈的心情。It just comes way too natural

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acetylamino
Ahmednagar
Albert Einstein
average guarantee
Baah-ji
beland
Buerger's
cartographic camera
characterized by
chromonema (pl. -nemate)
circling the drain
colgrave sd.
common license
Communication, visual.
compound failure
conductrice
consulado of burgos
control flow complexity measure
conversion electron spectroscopy
culex (lophoceraomyia) spiculosus
dataposts
delexically
disenthralling
Dubawnt L.
elevated coal track
empirical analysis
endomes
eneuch
expiration of policy
fineness of sand
folacin
forced circulation evaporator
fuelist
galluss galluss
genus arisarums
genus vanguerias
give sb a sentence
greenland spars
grill flooring
honeycomb tetter
honeytrap
horacio
hsync
hypoth
ideal body weight
ideo-
immune selection
initial workpiece
inverted output
Itapetininga
Katrineholm
laplanders
lashups
litidionite
load free speed
maestroes
negative earthed D.C.two-wire system
nervi peronaeus communis
Nervogastrol
Norra Kvarken
oil circulation cooling
one row film
phasing-out
phosphoenolpyruvic acid
piston rod cotter
polyphase induction regulator
Pop rivet
proddies
proprotors
proton precession magnetometer
prurity
punch-and-die process
punctured neighbo(u)rhood
radioactive series
restricted type
restrictor size
sauch
settle for
silveira
simplicist
SMZco
source books
spermatherine
Sprachraum
squamose erosion
square law detector
strike fund
sun-dried-tomato
T-64
terminal stage
tetrol
the onlooker sees most of the game
three-jaw hand operated chuck
tower sprayer
turners
unified joint economic legal relations
wangled
waso
wavefront analysis
weighted matrix
wild-eyed
worth their salt