He said this creates a "distorted reality" and the U.N.must take a more balanced approach.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

It is not in the least to assert that no references may be distorted if advantage can thereby gained.

并不是为了能得到好处,而说所有的参考都是真实的。

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Psychological framing" means the tendency for people to view things in a distorted way depending on how they're presented.

框架效应是指,一个问题两种在逻辑意义上相似的说法,会导致了不同的决策判断。

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were killed in the conflict. Britain's involvement in the war was deeply unpopular at home and there were allegations the government had distorted intelligence to justify the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

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"There is a problem with the judiciary. There is a problem with the notion of being able to take cases to the courty, cases where journalists are threatened, publications are supressed, or information distorted.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"There are,of course,some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor's record,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

"But what we showed here is that we can make progress when we are willing to break free from some of the stale debates and old ideologies that have dominated and distorted the debate in this hemisphere for far too long,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19