新概念英语第四册37-04

truthful : 真实的，说真话的

untruthful : 爱说谎的，不真实的

to face reality: 面对现实 my family is well off/ honeyed.

接下来课文...Truth, therefore, is an attitude of the mind. ...

truth 说真话

an attitude of the mind 可替换为 a state of mind 精神状态

mental age : 心理年龄

moral decay : 道德败坏

接下来课文... is important, if one does not wish to inconvenience and to bore one's friends, not tolt tell lies. But it is more important not to think lies, or to slide into those mechanical and untruthful habits of thought which are so pleasant and so easy as descents to mental ineptitude. ...

think = imagine

slide into : 滑进去，陷进去

mechanical : 机械的 unconscious : 无意识的

conscious : 有意识的

descent : 产物，后代

mental ineptitude : 不动脑筋

bar : 单杠