It Pays to Be Honest 　　From the mass media and also with our own eyes, we know much dishonest behavior existed in our society.

从大众传播媒介，也有我们自己的眼睛是诚实的，我们知道在我们的社会中存在着许多不诚实的行为。

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，商人出售假冒产品来欺骗他们的顾客；学生抄袭别人的作业或从网上下载非法文件来欺骗他们的老师；甚至更糟的是，一些人生产假冒伪劣药品。

Seeing our society is filled with so many dishonest phenomena, I cant help asking myself whats wrong with us.

看到我们的社会充斥着许多不诚实的现象，我不禁要问自己，我们的问题是什么。

　　When we were very young we were taught the importance of being honest.

当我们很小的时候，我们被教导的重要性，诚实。

I am sure everyone must still remember that story "A wolf is coming".

我肯定每个人都必须记住这个故事"狼来了。

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，孩子不停地欺骗别人，一只狼来了，狼真的来了，没有人相信他的话，他最终也受到了自己的不诚实。

Also we have heard many stories that people benefit from their virtues of honesty.

我们也听过许多人从诚实的美德中受益的故事。

　　So since we have already known being honest benefit both ourselves and other people.

既然我们已经知道自己是诚实的，我们和其他人都会受益。

Why are many of us still dishonest?

为什么我们中的许多人仍然不诚实？

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".

我希望每个人都必须牢记，诚实是人类的基本素质，我们不会害怕任何"狼。

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