input: Text: LOST IN TRANSLATION By LARRY M. HARRIS In language translation, you may get a literally accurate word-for-word translation... but miss the meaning entirely. And in space-type translation... the effect may be the same! Illustrated by Schoenherr The cell had been put together more efficiently than any Korvin had ever been in. But that was only natural, he told himself sadly; the Tr'en were an efficient people. All the preliminary reports had agreed on that; their efficiency, as a matter of fact, was what had made Korvin's arrival a necessity. They were well into the atomic era, and were on the verge of developing space travel. Before long they'd be settling the other planets of their system, and then the nearer stars. Faster-than-light travel couldn't be far away, for the magnificently efficient physical scientists of the Tr'en—and that would mean, in the ordinary course of events, an invitation to join the Comity of Planets. An invitation, the Comity was sure, which the Tr'en would not accept. Korvin stretched out on the cell's single bunk, a rigid affair which was hardly meant for comfort, and sighed. He'd had three days of isolation, with nothing to do but explore the resources of his own mind. He'd tried some of the ancient Rhine experiments, but that was no good; he still didn't show any particular psi talents. He couldn't unlock the
  Question: How was Korvin able to avoid disclosing the true intent of his mission under the lie detector questioning? 
  
   (A) While he was strapped down in the lie-detector, Korvin subtly switched the wire that indicated a truth with the one that indicated a lie. 
   (B) Korvin said truths that literally answered the Tr'en's questions but evaded the intent behind their questions. .
   (C) The Tr'en hadn't tested the lie-detector extensively enough and the machine was faulty. 
   (D) Even with the Tr'en's language lessons, Korvin could only to speak in very simple terms and was unable to answer the Ruler's questions at the depth the Ruler was expecting.
  Answer:
output: Korvin said truths that literally answered the Tr'en's questions but evaded the intent behind their questions. .