It is said that honesty is the best policy but it seems not everyone agrees.
有人說,，誠實是最好的政策，但并不是每個人都這么認為。
Researchers have found that people's truthfulness varies significantly between countries, with Britons and the Japanese scoring highest for morality and China and Turkey having the poorest scores.
研究人員發(fā)現,，不同國家之間的誠實度也是不同的,。例如在道德方面,，英國和日本得分最高，而中國和土耳其則得分最低,。
In a series of tests, people were also asked to rate which country they believed to be the most deceitful with Greece, unfairly, topping the list.
人們心目中最愛騙人的國家,，希臘不幸排第一。
Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) quizzed 1,500 people from 15 countries in an online survey, which involved two experiments designed to measure honest behaviour.They wanted to find out whether people from different countries were more or less honest and how this related to a country's economic development.
來自英國東英吉利大學的研究人員們對來自15個國家的1500人做了網絡調查,，他們想要發(fā)現是否不同國家的人誠實度也不同,，同時也想知道誠實度與國家經濟發(fā)展的關系。
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The countries studied included Brazil, China, Greece, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, the US, Argentina, Denmark, the UK, India, Portugal, South Africa, and South Korea.
他們調查的國家包括巴西,，中國,，希臘,，日本,，俄羅斯,，瑞士,，土耳其，美國,，阿根廷，丹麥,，英國,，印度，葡萄牙,，南非和韓國,。
Firstly, participants were asked to flip a coin and state whether it landed on 'heads' or 'tails'. They knew if they reported that it landed on heads, they would be rewarded with $3 (￡2) or $5 (￡3.50).
參與者們被要求拋出一枚硬幣，并且說出硬幣落地時是正面還是反面,。研究人員告訴參與者們，如果硬幣正面落地,，他們可以得到3-5美元（2-3.5英鎊）的獎勵,。
拋硬幣測試中，最誠實的國家排名如下：
Great Britain 英國
South Africa 南非
Portugal 葡萄牙
Greece 希臘
Switzerland 瑞士
Denmark 丹麥
Turkey 土耳其
USA 美國
Argentina 阿根廷
Russia 俄羅斯
Brazil 巴西
India 印度
South Korea 南非
Japan 日本
China 中國
(來源：滬江英語)