巴纳研究集团的一项调查发现，美国人认为出现假新闻现象最主要的原因是“读者错误”，而不是编造的故事或报道中的事实错误。

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americas for the fake news phenomenon is "reader error," more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

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让我们心理上受苦的，不是事情本身，而是我们对事情的想法和围绕着这个事情所编造的故事。

What makes us psychologically suffering is not the thing itself, but the way we think about things and the stories we make about the matter.

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由于说谎者不得不编造一个与事实片段相交叉的故事，他们会难以判断要编造的故事究竟有多长，以至于增加很多不必要的细节在里面。

Since they have to create an alternate reality apart from the truth, liars have difficulty knowing how much of the new story to tell and will often include unnecessary details.

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Then on the other hand, at the other extreme, you have scholars who see the patriarchal stories as entirely fabricated retrojections of a much later age. And they vary significantly as to when they think these stories were written: anywhere from the period of the monarchy all the way down to the fourth century, some of them.

另一方面又是另一个极端，有学者认为族长故事完全是后世编造的,这样一来，对这些故事是什么时候写的,也有巨大的分歧：,其中一些人认为是在从君主制时期,到公元4世纪之间的某段时候。

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