Question

一小段英语短文翻译---------------高手帮忙22

（1）It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend was talking to agreed with me that it was ,in his words, “a brilliantly（精彩地）written book”. However, he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all .I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.
（2）And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t .In the World Book Day’s “Report on Guilty Secrets”, Dreams From My Father is at number 9.The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often（I’d hate to be caught out）, I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984.I think it’s really brilliant.
请标准翻译第（2）段（不要机器翻译的），谢谢

Answer 1

并且我的朋友貌似不是唯一一个，大约三分之二的人会撒谎说他们看过一本他们根本没看过的书。在世界读书日里，“对于羞愧秘密的报道”，《我父亲的梦想》这本书排行第九，这个报道列举了十本书，还有各种各样的作者，这些都是人们撒谎说读过的书。我并不是一个经常撒谎说读过某本书的人，（并且我痛恨被抓到，揭穿），我承认在这个报道中有一本书是我撒过慌读过但是其实没有读过的，但是，我很开心地说，我不像那42%的人。我读过榜上最多人撒谎说读过的书。《George Orwell’s 1984》（书名，没必要翻），我觉得那本书的确写得很好。

我加了一些语言进去辅助你理解，直白地翻译下来，可能有点难懂。

Answer 2

“世界读书日”报告还包含了一些很有趣的信息。据报道许多人谎称读过简`奥斯汀、查尔斯`狄更斯、费奥多尔·杜斯妥也夫斯基（我没有读过他的书，但也没对此说过谎）和赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的书。

当被问到为什么说谎时，最寻常的理由是想给与之交谈的某人留下”好印象“。如果谈话深入下去，这可能会变得相当微妙！

然而当被问到真正欣赏哪个作家时，人们提出J.K.罗琳，约翰葛里逊，索菲·金塞拉（噢，换句话说，那些畅销作家们）。被问到的人中有百分之四十二承认他们会在读完小说之前先翻到书的最后读结局（我也要老实交待：我亦如此，而且对竟然有58%的人从未如此做过感到震惊）。