white lie

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White lie accomplishes some positive good or at least avoids some evil.
『善意的谎言完成某一正面好或至少避免某一罪恶』。
Fig4. Is the creative guy, who thought up the slogan“Technology liberates your communication”, telling a big white lie?
图四：老王：有句广告词叫“科技让交流更轻松”，写这个广告创意的家伙没撒谎吧？
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Does not have the woman to result in the rumor, white lie is also good, black lie is also good, lies compared to said the truth fluent bad sweetheart left the movie leading lady to go to the hobby.
没有女人受得起谎言，好的谎言也好，坏的谎言也好，说谎比说真话流利的坏情人还是留给电影女主角去爱好了。

which everybody knows isn't true, but Mama said it was justa little white lie, so it wasn't hurting nobody.
Okay, so you caught me in a small white lie for pedagogical sake.
好的，所以你捕捉到我,以教育目的用了个善意的谎言。
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The bits, the zeros and ones that compose the library are actually - in that file called cs50.c but those bits live or-- even that's a white lie.
这些构成该库的比特--0啊1啊,却是在cs50，c文件里,这些源代码-,可以说是根本不存在。
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When have you told a little white lie to avoid an unpleasant situation or conversation?
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a lie that is told in order to be polite or to stop someone from being upset by the truth

If you refer to an untrue statement as a white lie, you mean that it is made to avoid hurting someone's feelings or to avoid trouble, and not for an evil purpose.

白谎
Being a special kind of lie, white lie is ubiquitous in routine life. It is often adopted to achieve social interaction goals and served to establish, maintain and promote interpersonal relations.
白谎是一种特殊的谎言，普遍存在于日常生活中，是人们常采取的一种社交手段，对于人际关系的建立、维护和促进发挥着积极的意义。
语言学
善意谎言
The white lie is intended to care for the face and satisfy people's psychological expectations. Therefore, it can yield positive cognitive effect and it is relevant to the addressee.
善意谎言的目的是维护面子,是为了满足人们的某种心理期待,因此能够取得积极的积极认知效果。
新闻学与传播学
不怀恶意的谎言