fibs

英 [fɪbz]

美 [fɪbz]

n.  谎言; (无关紧要的)小谎，瞎话
v.  撒谎; 说瞎话
fib的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小谎;无伤大雅的谎话
  Afibis a small, unimportant lie.
  1. She told innocent fibs like anyone else.
     她也像别人一样，说些无伤大雅的谎话。
• VERB 说谎;撒谎;说假话
  If someoneis fibbing, they are telling lies.
  1. He laughs loudly when I accuse him of fibbing.
     当我指责他说谎时，他大笑起来。

双语例句

• Are passengers really in danger from such fibs?
  乘客们会不会因为这样的小谎言而真有危险呢？
• Scholars, both Chinese and Western, say that fraud remains rampant and misconduct ranges from falsified data to fibs about degrees, cheating on tests and extensive plagiarism.
  中国和西方的学者都认为，国内的欺骗依然泛滥：从数据造假到学历撒谎，从考试作弊到大量剽窃，不正当的学术行为影响广泛。
• He is a person who tells fiBs.
  他是个撒小谎的人。
• Exposing fibs, exaggerations and indiscretions routinely used to undercut or derail political careers is migrating to the corporate world as a new tactic for unhappy shareholder activists to win changes they seek in the executive suite.
  揭露无伤大雅的谎言、牛皮和言行失检，这些通常用于政治攻击的小伎俩现在也开始出现在企业界，愤懑不平的维权股东开始使用这些手段来达到改变公司管理层的目的。
• She told innocent fibs like anyone else.
  她也像别人一样，说些无伤大雅的谎话。
• Even little fibs can be perilous to careers.
  即使一点点小谎也对工作有害。
• Liars keep their feet unnaturally still to try to distract people away from their fibs.
  说谎的人会很不自然地保持双脚不动，以将人们的注意力从他们的谎话上转移开。
• Asking more than 1,000 employed adults, it found the most popular fibs included embellishments of sporting achievements and charitable or community work.
  在询问了1000多名成年雇员后，该调查发现，最常见的小谎言包括美化运动成绩以及慈善或社区工作。
• But in the current study, researchers found that these parental fibs are hardly few and far between.
  但是在当前的研究中，研究者发现那些父母的谎话多如牛毛，不尽相同。
• Mary didn't like it when the other girls said she was proud and lazy, but when they said she told fibs it was the last straw that broke the camel's back and she told the teacher.
  玛丽不喜欢别的女孩子们说她又骄又懒，所以当她们说她撒小谎时，她再也忍受不住了，就告诉了老师。