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

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

And it's worse still-- Of course,if you don't share the intuitions that I just-- I was being honest with you.

更糟的是-,如果你跟我有同样的直觉-,我说的都是实话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

And then, they have this very complicated back-and-forth about things that they remembered, or didn't, and they hashed these things over: Then Carlo asked Dean if he was honest and specifically if he was being honest with him in the bottom of his soul.

于是，他们有了这个十分复杂的,关于他们想得起来想不起来的事的来回选择，并且他们充分讨论了这些事情：,然后卡洛问迪恩他是否诚实，特别是他是否,从灵魂深处对他诚实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"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

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

Be honest with your family. You can't hide from it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

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

"Don't hide a loved one. Be honest with your friends.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

First of all, I found secretary Rumsfeld a very easy person to deal with in a sense that he's very professional, very strict, very honest, not the kind of guy who, you know, take a different position, try to around behind your back. If he's going to stab you, he's going to stab you in the chest.

首先，我发现拉姆斯菲尔德秘书长,是很容易打交道的人,我指的是他非常专业，非常严格，非常诚恳，不像那类人，因为观点立场不同,就从你背后放冷箭,如果他想杀了你，也是从正面进攻。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"I'll be very honest with King Abdullah with whom I have developed a good relationship, indicating to him that we're not going to be eliminating our need for oil imports in the immediate future;

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

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

He has brought needed supplies with him. "Wooo.It's about time you got back to earning an honest living.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

They came up with five different types of bottled teas they marketed as "Honest Tea."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

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

"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

The State Department said Monday the administration still has a hand extended to Iran despite the chilly reaction by Iran's supreme leader to Mr.Obama's videotaped holiday greeting to Iran late last week, in which he said the United States seeks honest engagement with Iran's Islamic government based on mutual respect.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23