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When I was in third grade, one of my classmates brought a sheet of racing car stickers to school to show off.
我三年级时，一个同学带来了一张赛车贴纸到学校里来炫耀。

The stickers were dazzling.
那些贴纸令人炫目。

I wanted them so badly that I stayed back during gym class and transferred the sheet out of the classmate's backpack into mine.
我实在太想要它们，以至于趁着体育课留在教室，把贴纸从同学书包中偷出来，藏到了我的包里。

When the students returned, my heart was racing. Panicking that I would be found out, I thought up a preemptive lie.
当同学们回来时，我的心怦怦乱跳。因为担心我的行为会被揭发出来，我抢在大家发现前想了一个谎言。

I told the teacher that two teenagers had shown up on a motorbike, entered the classroom,
我告诉老师，两个在摩托车上的少年冲进了教室，

rifled through backpacks, and left with the stickers.
洗劫了书包留下了这些贴纸。

As you might expect, this fib collapsed at the gentlest probing, and I reluctantly returned what I had pilfered.
正如大家所想的，这个小谎言在温和的查探中被戳穿，而我也不情愿地归还了偷的东西。

My naive lying -- I got better, trust me -- was matched by my gullibility in sixth grade,
我天真的谎言符合我六年级时受骗的心态。相信我，我现在变得好多了。

when a friend told me that his family owned a flying capsule that could transport us anywhere in the world.
一个朋友告诉我说他家有一个飞行舱可以载我们去世界各地。

Preparing to travel on this craft, I asked my parents if they could pack me a few meals for the journey.
为了准备这次飞船之旅，我问父母是否能为我准备一些食物。

Even when my older brother snickered, I refused to disbelieve my friend's claim,
甚至当我的哥哥在一旁窃笑时，我还不愿意去怀疑我朋友的话，

and it was left to my friend's father to finally convince me that I'd been duped.
直到朋友的爸爸说服我，我被骗了。

These lies that my friend and I told were nothing out of the ordinary for kids our age.
我和朋友说的这些谎在那个年龄段的孩子身上没什么特别。

Like learning to walk and talk, lying is something of a developmental milestone.
就像学习说话和走路一样，说谎是一个发展式的里程碑。

While parents often find their children's lies troubling -- for they signal the beginning of a loss of innocence
父母经常为孩子的谎言感到不安，认为谎言是丧失无辜纯真的信号，

Kang Lee, a psychologist at the University of Toronto,
多伦多大学的心理学家坎·李则认为，

sees the emergence of the behavior in toddlers as a reassuring sign that their cognitive growth is on track.
幼儿说谎行为的出现是令人放心的迹象，表明他们的认知增长正在进行中。

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1.show off 炫耀
All right, there's no need to show off.
好啦，没有必要炫耀了。

2.refuse to do 拒绝做某事；不愿做某事
The Lawyer may refuse to undertake a case which appears to him unsound.
律师可能拒绝承办他认为站不住脚的案件。

3.out of the ordinary 不平常的
And as I said above, recognition is usually for doing something out of the ordinary and beyond your usual job or role.
正如我上述所说的，获得认可是因为你做了一些不平常的事，或是你的服务超出了你的职责范围。

4.a loss of 丧失；损失
Risk can be characterized in terms of a loss of time, quality, money, control, or understanding.
风险能够被表现为时间、质量、金钱、控制或者理解力损失的形式。

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signal	['signl]	想一想再看 n. 信号，标志 v. (发信号)通知、表示<	联想记忆 X 单词signal 联想记忆：晚上的信号灯是很明显的。
psychologist	[sai'kɔlədʒist]	想一想再看 n. 心理学家	联想记忆 X 单词psychologist 联想记忆：源于：psyche（n 心智；精神）
milestone	['mailstəun]	想一想再看 n. 里程碑
innocence	['inəsns]	想一想再看 n. 无罪，无知，天真无邪	联想记忆 X 单词innocence 联想记忆： in无+noc伤害+ence表名词，“性质，状态”…无罪→无罪，天真
claim	[kleim]	想一想再看 n. 要求，要求权;主张，断言，声称;要求物
refuse	[ri'fju:z]	想一想再看 v. 拒绝 n. 垃圾，废物	联想记忆 X 单词refuse 联想记忆： re回+fuse流，泻→向回流→拒绝
convince	[kən'vins]	想一想再看 vt. 使确信，使信服，说服	联想记忆 X 单词convince 联想记忆： vince＝vict征服：在思想上征服另一个人－说服
unsound	[,ʌn'saund]	想一想再看 adj. 不健全的；不健康的；谬误的；腐烂的；不牢靠的	联想记忆 X 单词unsound 联想记忆： un不，sound（adj 合理可靠的）：理由不充分的
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reassuring	[,ri:ə'ʃuəriŋ]	想一想再看 adj. 可靠的；安心的；鼓气的 v. 使放心（reas