told white lie

He fails miserably at parties and begins screaming like a child when he realizes he has been told a white lie.

他在聚会上表现得非常失败，当他认识到别人对自己撒了个善意的谎言后，他就开始像个小孩似地尖叫。

I told my wife a white lie saying that she looked fabulous in her new clothes.

我对太太撒了个善意的谎言，称赞她穿上新衣好看极了。

White had told me that many of these "Windows of time" lie in such close proximity that one could literally walk from one to another in the course of a couple of days.

怀特告诉我，研究人员在一两天的时间里从一个地方走到另一个地方，表面看起来平淡无奇，但实际上古人类学上很多关键“时间窗口”的确定就在于这样的亦步亦趋中。