"I do not regret it." he said. "It is better to be defeated battling for an honest idea, than to win by a cowardly trick."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

As your record shapes itself an awed wonder haunts you, and yet there is no more exciting an adventure than trying to be honest in this way.

你过去的事变成一种让你毛骨悚然恐怖的经历，没有什么比如实记录更激动人心的了,当你写完之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I want you to know if there is ever anything you want to say, you can be honest.

我想让你知道，如果你有任何事想跟我倾诉，你都可以诚实地跟我说。

Is there any 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This means the investigation is going to be complete and honest.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

They like to--when they're computing the investment yield, they want to be completely honest and not use any rules of thumb.

当他们计算投资收益率的时候,他们需要完全精确,而非用经验公式

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And Jonathan,to be honest, was kind of random.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.

瞧，即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And in Washington this was the reaction: "To be honest,I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize men and women who have inspired me, and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

My goal here is to be honest with you, right?

我的目标就是诚实的面对你们，对么？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"To be honest with you, I think that it lent to the kind of curmudgeon-like feel of the character itself."

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

I mean, to be honest, right now I'm not reading nearly as much as I'd like to

说真的，我现在读书没有以前那么多了，

要继续努力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was asked if there was any good news at all in the report: "To be honest,no.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

To be honest, I'm not sure if you need to have gone to undergraduate

老实的说，我不确定你是否要有本科学历，

想成为律师的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Seth Goldman, co-founder of "Honest Tea" found most bottled drinks to be too sweet or tasteless.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Be honest I mean, I wish I had, or if I was going to go in another field I wish I have taken more environmental science classes.

说实在的，真的是这样，如果我工作的是另一个领域的话,我希望上更多的环境科学课。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

(Speaking) He promised the Kurdish government would do its best to ensure the security of elections, which he said he hoped would be transparent, democratic,and honest.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Now I was going to put that text up on the board and, to be honest with you, I forgot to do that, so I'm going to have to see if I can remember this text: We're going to focus now on two sections of this work: the "Confutatis" And the "Lacrimosa dies illa."

现在我将要把歌词写在黑板上,老实跟你们说,我刚才忘了这么做,所以我得看看自己是否还记得歌词,我们将专注于这部作品的两个部分,《羞惭无地》和《落泪之日》

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"I wanted to show more than I did, to be honest with you."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Yeah, I, to be honest, I'm not sure that's so true. Um...

是，我，实话说，我不知道这是不是真的。呃…

对于赞助入学的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I've got to be honest with you. I'm of another generation in time,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

And then a lot of it is networking. To be honest,

它上面的很多东西都是网络化的。说实话，

就业的方法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"To be honest with you, it's probably been a lot better because I don't know what this site would have been like with 6- or 8,000 more people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

and to be honest, I've actually never worked the minimum wage.

说实话，我没有拿过最低工资。

生活费偏高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He also said corruption must be reduced so there are honest local leaders who can partner with the United States and deliver services to restore the faith of Afghans in their own government.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Well, to be honest, go to school.

说实话，去学校。

想开精品店 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Looking in the past, I think there has a weakness in the enforcement of the law and it has a lot to do with the way the law has been interpreted, to be honest."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

And so we'll see this theme of tradeoffs, to be honest, throughout the course.

我们会看到一个折衷的方案，老实说，这将贯穿整个课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Even the president was stunned. "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

To be honest, especially those of you less comfortable here, if you've ever struggled with some program or struggled with some piece of software, oh it's alright, it's not your fault.

说实话，尤其是对那些在这里上课有些吃力的同学，如果你曾经使用哪个程序或软件有困难,好吧，那不是你的错。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So what I want to do in this class is be honest with you and tell you, "You've really done work here to be extraordinarily proud of yourself" versus "Yeah, you've done something okay" or "You've done good work.

所以我想在这个课程里和你们坦陈相待，你们真的是在学东西,让自己及其骄傲“,而不是说你们做的差强人意“,或是你们干的不错。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选