It didn't matter. The truth was I was settling, Mike was settling, and so was my friend, Mark.
其实都不是，真相是因为我真正安定下来了，迈克也安定下来了，而我的朋友，马克，也是如此。
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She'd underlined true and truth wherever it appeared in the essay, probably about twenty times, with a question mark beside each.
她在文中所有的“真实和真理”下划了线，可能有二十多处，每个后面都打上问号。
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Columnist Mark Shields says that everyone now knows that when you do something terribly wrong and are caught at it, the first rule of damage control is to get the truth out as soon as possible.