It Pays to Be Honest From the mass media and also with our own eyes, we know much dishonest behavior existed in our society.
從大眾傳播媒介,也有我們自己的眼睛是誠實的,我們知道在我們的社會中存在著許多不誠實的行為。
For example, businessmen sell fake products to cheat their customers; students copy others homework or download illicit papers from Internet to cheat their teachers; and even worse, some people produce fake medicine that harm the patients.
例如,商人出售假冒產品來欺騙他們的顧客;學生抄襲別人的作業或從網上下載非法文件來欺騙他們的老師;甚至更糟的是,一些人生產假冒偽劣藥品。
Seeing our society is filled with so many dishonest phenomena, I cant help asking myself whats wrong with us.
看到我們的社會充斥著許多不誠實的現象,我不禁要問自己,我們的問題是什麼。
When we were very young we were taught the importance of being honest.
當我們很小的時候,我們被教導的重要性,誠實。
I am sure everyone must still remember that story "A wolf is coming".
我肯定每個人都必須記住這個故事「狼來了。
In the story the child kept cheating other people that a wolf was coming, but when the wolf really come, nobody trusted his words and he finally suffered his own dishonesty.
在故事中,孩子不停地欺騙別人,一隻狼來了,狼真的來了,沒有人相信他的話,他最終也受到了自己的不誠實。
Also we have heard many stories that people benefit from their virtues of honesty.
我們也聽過許多人從誠實的美德中受益的故事。
So since we have already known being honest benefit both ourselves and other people.
既然我們已經知道自己是誠實的,我們和其他人都會受益。
Why are many of us still dishonest?
為什麼我們中的許多人仍然不誠實?
I hope everyone must bear in mind that being honest is the basic quality of human beings and then we wont be afraid of any "wolf".
我希望每個人都必須牢記,誠實是人類的基本素質,我們不會害怕任何「狼。