Don't make up a story.

不要编造故事了。

We make up a story ... to make sense of what's going on, and we all get it wrong.

我们会编个故事...让所有的事情变得合情合理。但我们都错了。

I decided to go to the next village and make_up a story about the steamboat.

我决定去下一个村子，并且编造一个有关这艘汽艇的故事。

Instead, we make up a story about what a failure we are or how we’ll never be able to do this and we stop trying.

相反的，我们编故事说自己是一个多么失败的人以及自己永远也不可能把这件事做好，因而我们停止了尝试。

She could make up a story by saying she was knocked unconscious by thieves and that all her money was gone, but she doubted whether she could make it sound believable.

她可以编造一个故事，说自己被窃贼大昏，所有的钱都没了，但她怀疑自己是否能让这故事听起来可信。

Lewis Carroll was traveling with the Liddell sisters, 3 little girls who got bored and asked him to make up a story for them.

刘易斯·卡罗尔和利德尔姐妹一起旅行，三个小女孩们感到厌倦，让他给她们编个故事。

He needs time to make up a story letting his parents go home earlier without noticing his plight. He doesn't want them to worry about his business.

他需要时间，编造一个理由，让父母察提前回乡，而且还察觉不到他的困境，他不想让他们操心。

'If you make up a story about a uniformed valet with a name badge in a valet parking lot with a Lion chasing him around the car, it should provide enough information to get his name right.

如果你编一个关于穿制服，在仆从场地带有名字徽章并且被一头狮子围着汽车追的仆从的故事，就需要提供足够的信息是他的名字正确。