英語四級閱讀理解長難句練習（八十八）

　　88.People are also more likely to lie in real timein an instant message or phone call, saythan if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock.

　　主干：People are more likely to lie... than if...,

　　解析：句末的says Hancock 可以看做插入成分，也可以看做是這種句式的主句部分（用了倒裝結構）。兩個破折號中間的內容是插入語，是對前面內容的舉例說明。...are more likely to lie...than if...是比較句，是把real time 交際與if they have time to think of a response 的交際進行比較。

　　譯文：Hancock說，比起有時間設想答復的場合，人們在實時談話中比如說在即時信息或者電話談話中也更可能撒謊。