It can be really difficult to get a thorough answer to a direct question.

对于一个直接的问题很难有完整的答案。

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She spoke only when asked a direct question; her answers were short, minimal, sometimes beside the point.

她只在被问道直接问题时才开口；她的回答十分简短，抽象，有时还偏离话题。

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LEVIN: "I understand, but I'm just asking you a direct question."

莱文说：“我明白这一点。”但是，我就是要问你一个直接的问题。

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Mitt Romney oddly asked himself a direct question and then refused to answer it.

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If they were asked a direct question they should have given the right answer, and they clearly didn't.

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Here as elsewhere like a direct question about how each candidate was different from Bush there was no indication that either candidate was willing to admit that they want to largely preserve the basic approach to governance adopted during the Bush administration.

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