To kill time, he read the one book he could get his hands on, Dan Brown's "Deception Point."

为了打发时间，他阅读唯一一本手头有的书，丹·布朗的小说《骗局》。

youdao

"Some Western observers speculated that the real answer was zero-perhaps the decades of deception had led to a point where not even the Kremlin knew the true figure."

某些西方观察家甚至怀疑，真正的答案是零：撒了几十年的谎使得克里姆林宫自己也到了不知真实数字的地步。

youdao

The observant reader may feel at this point that structured procrastination requires acertain amount of self-deception, since one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid one scheme on self.

此时，细心的读者也许感觉到：做到有计划的拖延意味着一定程度上的自我欺骗，因为人们实际上总是在不断上演Pyramid scheme（金字塔计划，类似传销活动，喻不可持续的欺骗活动）。

youdao

If we are in a new bear market, as many suggest, then there will come a point in the trend where the deception mechanism breaks causing the downtrend to accelerate.

FORBES: Look Out Bears, The Bulls Will Rule September

Daniel Loeb, the billionaire founder of New York hedge fund Third Point, also reportedly got former CIA operatives to teach his staff deception detection techniques and uses private investigators when the hedge fund is shorting a stock.

FORBES: Former Israeli Intelligence Operatives Now Working For Hedge Funds