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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

礼貌:最能让人接受的虚伪。

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖，京都议定书，当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓，当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时，我们发出了一个可怕的信息，那就是表里不一和伪善。

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

我希望你不要一直过着双重的生活，假装很坏，实际上一直很好。那就是虚伪。

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The only true source of politeness is consideration.

礼貌的唯一真正来源是体贴。

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If you bow at all, bow low.

如果你要鞠躬，那就低一点。

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