关于谎言的雅思作文范文

　　Should people always tell the truth? Give your opinion and reasons to support it. 　　人们是否应该一直讲真话？试述你的观点并给出理由。

　　Honesty has always been considered to be a worthy character trait in whatever culture. Indeed, it is often thought of as the most important human value. Generally speaking, it is therefore not a good idea to tell lies.However, there may be some circumstances when telling lies might be necessary and could even be justified.

　　Providing one makes sure the lie is for the benefits of others, not one' s own, it can perhaps be justified. For example, doctors may lie to benefit their patients when they wish to speed recovery or to conceal the approach of death. The requirement of honesty also seems dwarfed when there is a greater need to shelter aging parents from heart-attack in the case of the brutal news that their son has died accidentally. To put his wife at ease and to guarantee a promise of top secrecy, a husband may claim that a life-threatening assignment is just a business trip. All these are benevolent deceptions and are understandable.

　　When you make deceptions with good intention, there is one more thing you have to be sure about-that you do it well. Lying is a great art, and you need to be very careful about it, until practice and life experience give you the confidence, elegance and precision to do it gracefully and beneficially. If you don' t, you are almost certainly going to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before.Many a young person has ruined his reputation permanently through a single clumsy and ill-told lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training.

　　Integrity is desirable, but the opinion that we ought not to lie at all, of course, is putting it rather more strongly than necessary. I maintain that we can practice this art, if it is in others' interest, and if you know how to use it well.Other wise, you had better be honest rather than risking your integrity and credibility by playing tricks. The more important thing is not to think about teling lies, or slide into those mechanical and untruthful habits of thought.

　　在任何一种文化中，诚实都是一种美德。实际上，它被认为是重要的一种品质。总的说来，说谎并不好。说谎只有在不得不说的时候才说，而且应该有正当的理由。

　　如果一个人确认谎言对别人有益而不是对自己有益，这就是正当的。例如，医生可能对自己的病人说谎，这是为了病人好。因为医生希望能够加速病人的恢复或者挽救病人的生命。当患有心脏病的老人的儿子意外丧生时，为了病人的需要就不得不隐瞒残酷的真相。为了使妻子放心，并维护高机密，丈夫不得不把执行有生命危险的任务说成是一次商务外出。这些都是善意的谎言，而且可以理解。

　　如果是善意的谎言，你需要确信你能够做得很好。说谎是一门艺术，你需要非常小心。只有在你的实践经验和生活阅历都足够的情况下你才能够很好地，准确无误地这样做。如果不是，你会自食其果。如果谎言被揭穿，你在光天化日之下就不能再像以前那样生活了。很多年轻人都是因为一句简单的并不高明的谎言彻底毁了自己的名声，这是经验不够的结果。

　　正直是理想化的，但是认为“不能说谎”这种观点是走极端了。如果对他人有利，而你也知道如何运用好，那么我们可以采用善意的谎言。否则你还是保持正直，不要玩火。更重要的是不要思考谎言，也不要陷入那些机械的虚伪的思考习惯中。