为了保护自己，我们只好说谎。為了保護自己，我們只好說謊。為了保護自己，我們只好説謊。

To defend ourselves, we had to tell a lie.

Simplified: 为了保护自己，我们只好说谎。
Traditional (Taiwan): 為了保護自己，我們只好說謊。
Traditional (Hong Kong): 為了保護自己，我們只好説謊。
Pinyin: Wèile bǎohù zìjǐ, wǒmen zhǐhǎo shuōhuǎng.
Bopomofo: ㄨㄟˋ ˙ㄌㄜㄅㄠˇ ㄏㄨˋ ㄗˋ ㄐㄧˇ，ㄨㄛˇ ˙ㄇㄣㄓˇ ㄏㄠˇ ㄕㄨㄛㄏㄨㄤˇ。

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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This sentence is from Tatoeba, contributed by nickyeow, with the English translation by sentence 263069. It is used here under CC BY 2.0 FR.

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