那些比我矮三英寸的男人喜欢说:你肯定有六英尺两英寸,要不就是六英尺三英寸,是不是?
'No, I am exactly 6-feet tall,' I reply.
我回答说:不,我六英尺整。
'No, I think you must be taller than that,' they insist.
他们会坚持说:不,我想你肯定不止六英尺。
'I'm 6-feet tall and I am exactly 6-feet tall,' I respond. 'I can go get a tape measure if you like.'
我回答说:我六英尺,整六英尺;如果你愿意,我可以去拿尺子量量。
There are all sorts of things you can lie about with impunity. You can lie about your income or your military service or having seen Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. Assertions like this are too hard to verify, much less disprove, so you can usually get away with even the most bold-faced lies.
你可以在很多事情上说谎而不必担心受到惩罚。你可以谎报收入或兵役或曾在伍德斯托克看见过吉米・亨德里克斯(Jimi Hendrix)。像这样的话很难去核实,更不用说去证明是假的,所以,即使是最厚颜无耻的谎言通常也不会被揭穿。
No one is going to check to see if you really went to the Sorbonne or lost in the final rounds of a Quebec spelling bee because you misspelled 'cauchemardesque.'
没人会去核实你是否真的上过索邦大学(Sorbonne),或是因拼错了“cauchemardesque”(法语,意为“噩梦似的”)一词而在魁北克拼字比赛的最后一轮中落败。
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