安德点点头。当然，这是一个谎言，说不会有一点伤害。但由于大人总是在会受伤的时候才会这么说，所以他可以相信这句话是对未来的准确预测。有时候谎言比真相更可靠。
(Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.)
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