white lie

常见例句

White lie accomplishes some positive good or at least avoids some evil.
『善意的谎言完成某一正面好或至少避免某一罪恶』。
Fig4. Is the creative guy, who thought up the slogan“Technology liberates your communication”, telling a big white lie?
图四：老王：有句广告词叫“科技让交流更轻松”，写这个广告创意的家伙没撒谎吧？
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Does not have the woman to result in the rumor, white lie is also good, black lie is also good, lies compared to said the truth fluent bad sweetheart left the movie leading lady to go to the hobby.
没有女人受得起谎言，好的谎言也好，坏的谎言也好，说谎比说真话流利的坏情人还是留给电影女主角去爱好了。

which everybody knows isn't true, but Mama said it was justa little white lie, so it wasn't hurting nobody.
Okay, so you caught me in a small white lie for pedagogical sake.
好的，所以你捕捉到我,以教育目的用了个善意的谎言。
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The bits, the zeros and ones that compose the library are actually - in that file called cs50.c but those bits live or-- even that's a white lie.
这些构成该库的比特--0啊1啊,却是在cs50，c文件里,这些源代码-,可以说是根本不存在。
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When have you told a little white lie to avoid an unpleasant situation or conversation?
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