No wonder they feel looser, more spontaneous, perhaps more assertive or funnier or blunter, in the language they were reared in from childhood.
难怪他们会觉得自己的语言更松散、更自然，或许会觉得自己从小学会的语言更自信、更有趣或更直率。
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite.
说你的刀锋还没有食欲利落。
Is the red pencil blunter than the green one?
红色铅笔比绿色铅笔钝吗？
Or should we develop blunter tactics for change?
还是为了促成改变而去妥协我们的策略？
A report released last Friday by JPMorgan Chase was even blunter.
上周五由摩根大通银行发布的报告讲得更是直白。
Mr Babbage is blunter: "Current defence planning is invalid," he says.
Babbage先生是个直率的人：“目前的防御计划已经无效了，”他说。
Others might have been blunter – stop being such a wimp, they might say.
别人或许是迟钝的，他们会说不要成为那样一个懦弱等人。
Other senior figures in the ruling establishment have been even blunter.
另外一些统治机构资深人物更是直言不讳。
Mr King was blunter: the economy, he reckoned, had grown by only around 1% in the past year.
金恩却更加直言不讳：他认为，在过去的一年中经济只增长了1%。
Raising interest rates would have been another, much blunter solution to the problem of an overheating housing market.
提升利率是另一个解决过热的房地产市场的略显拙劣的方案。
In private, Mr Lee was blunter: "You guys are giving China a free run in Asia," the Financial Times reports him saying.
《金融时报》还报道了李光耀在私下说的一句话，“你们是在放纵中国在亚洲的权力。”
Soren Espersen, a member of parliament for the Danish People’s Party, is blunter: “Greenlanders have been brainwashed by unprecedented propaganda.”
丹麦人民党议员SorenEspersen则更为直言不讳：格陵兰人完全是被空前的游说冲昏了头脑。
"Men tend to be blunter in the workplace," says Michael Crom, executive vice President at Dale Carnegie Training. "it would be nice if they would cushion things a little better."
DaleCarnegieTraining公司的副总裁MichaelCrom说：“职场上的男性比较生硬，如果他们处理事情的时候能够圆滑点就更好了。”
Mr Cassano was even blunter, telling investors in August 2007 that "without being flippant" the company could not envisage a scenario that would "see us losing $1 in any of those transactions".
卡萨诺更直言不讳，他在2007年8月告诉投资人说，“毫不轻率地说”，公司想不出“我们在所有那些交易中亏损1美元”的情形。
Mr Cassano was even blunter, telling investors in August 2007 that "without being flippant" the company could not envisage a scenario that would "see us losing $1 in any of those transactions".
卡萨诺更直言不讳，他在2007年8月告诉投资人说，“毫不轻率地说”，公司想不出“我们在所有那些交易中亏损1美元”的情形。
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