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一眼看穿:男人七大经典谎言盘点

2014-05-06来源:和谐英语

7. “Sure, I’ll mow the lawn — as soon as this crick in my back goes away.”

7. “好吧,等我背痛好些,我就去修理草坪。”

There are few things that trouble a man more than a woman’s anger — or nagging, as he calls it — so he lies to avoid a scene. It is in “hassle-prevention lying” that men can demonstrate their greatest versatility.

再没有比女人的怒气或是喋喋不休的唠叨更让男人恼火的事儿了,于是他不得不撒谎来逃避这些事情。用男人自己的话来说,这些都是“化解争论的小谎言”。

“I’ll take the kids to the park — when the weather gets nicer,” he says as he goes out the door with golf clubs. “I would have scrubbed the pots, but I couldn’t find the scouring pads” — never looking under the sink.

“天气再好点的话,我就带小孩去公园玩。”他会边说边准备去打高尔夫。“我是想洗碗来着,但没找到抹布。”——好吧,他可不会去看水槽下面是什么。