"Put in the bluntest of ways, we've identified the chemical word for 'no,'" Sobel said.

索贝尔说：“用最笨的方法去想，我们也知道这个化学单词是‘不’”。

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The bluntest remedy would be to break the contracts entirely; another, to force contracts to be rewritten and losses reduced.

最笨的方法是完全破坏合约另外一个办法是迫使合约修改来减少损失。

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China's leaders have only the bluntest tools at their disposal and limited room for manoeuvre.

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Michele Alliot-Marie's remark, in a newspaper interview, were the bluntest criticism of Washington by a French official since presidents Jacques Chirac and George W. Bush skirted around their differences on Iraq at a summit two weeks ago.

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The risk, he said, was that they would take the hostages to a remote part of the desert and then negotiate for ransoms or prisoner exchanges, "and they used the bluntest of instruments, which was air power, to stop those cars".

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