Wise men of ancient times ingeniously discovered how to tell people the truth without being blunt to their faces.
古代的智者巧妙地发明了说出真相却又不让人感到丢脸的方法。
Blunt to the point of being rude, the Swiss probably have the least likely reputation for being characterized as “friendly” or “warm”.
瑞士人与“友好的”和“热情的”这两个词完全没有关系，直白地讲，他们是粗鲁无礼的。
Beijing also has resorted to the blunt tool of freezing prices of electricity and some other basic goods, but that is starting to backfire.
北京动用了冻结电价以及几类其他基本商品价格的生硬手段，但如今开始显得适得其反。
The spurs cause blunt trauma to the shoulders which never have time to heal properly before the horse is ridden and spurred in another rodeo.
马刺造成肩膀的钝伤，这些伤从来都没有时间痊愈，因为马会被在另一场竞技秀中再次被骑和刺。
I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
恕我直言，弗朗基，但她给我的感觉不是非常端庄。
It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.
这是一次雄心勃勃的尝试，旨在钝化全球化最尖锐的“棱角”，使资本主义变得温和。
The spurs cause blunt trauma to the shoulders which again never have time to heal properly before the horse is ridden and spurred in another rodeo.
马刺会造成肩膀的钝伤，这些伤从来都没有等到痊愈就会被在另一场竞技秀中再次被骑和刺。
No doubt it is the fate of all cutting-edge technology to eventually turn blunt, dull and outmoded, but that is a concern for another day, another era.
毫无疑问，所有尖端科技最终都无法逃脱愚钝、沉闷和过时的命运，但那是在另一个时代另一个日子里才需要面对烦恼。
Mr. Gates and his aides had debated just how blunt he ought to be in his address, which opened the Saturday session.
盖茨和他的助手已经讨论了在星期六的会议期间，他应该以怎样强硬的语气。
The reserves were set up in the wake of the Arab oil embargo of 1973 to blunt the effects of severe supply shocks.
石油储备是在1973年阿拉伯石油禁运事件之后设立的，用于削弱急剧石油供应震动所带来的影响。
That leads him to a blunt conclusion: save the workers, not the factories that turn out such clunkers.
他由此得出一个大胆的结论：要救的是工人，而不是出产些破铜烂铁的工厂。
"My concern to be quite blunt, is I don't want to happen what happened to Denver and George Karl," Jackson said.
“坦白地说，我现在最担心是，我不想发生在丹佛和卡尔身上的事发生在我身上，”杰克逊说。
Any attempt to detect and thwart this technique must combine technology and vigilance to blunt the effectiveness of the process.
如果希望侦测和破解该技术，必须要结合技术和警觉，这样才能增加成功的机会。
Russia has issued a blunt challenge to the West to stay out of its Caucasus backyard.
俄罗斯直截了当地向西方发难，要它们远离俄罗斯的高加索后院。
If Obama shares this view, it's no wonder he wants to blunt NASA's space program, to divert it from a symbol of American greatness into a more modest public relations program.
如果奥巴马也认同这个观点的话，就不会奇怪他为什么想要放慢太空总署的空间计划，让伟大的美国象征转行从事更为低调的公关工作了。
To be blunt, the quality of care has not kept pace with the needs - let alone expectations - of its people.
老实说，医疗的质量并没有跟的上民众的需求，更不用说民众的预期了。
Tall, gaunt, blunt and determined, to the world she embodied the steely stubbornness of the Israeli spirit.
高大、瘦削、率直又坚定她在世人眼里散发着以色列精神冷酷又倔强的一面。
Let's be blunt: If you like to take lots of vacation, the United States is not the place to work.
毋需赘言：如果你喜欢要很多的假期，美国就不是个适合你工作的国家。
Although the creatures represent a wide range of the animal kingdom, they all appear to belong to the same dear, blunt-nosed family.
虽然这些生物代表了广泛的动物王国，但这里他们都属于可爱的，钝头家族。
Short-term rates are too blunt an instrument to deal with the many threats that a financial system may face.
在处理很多金融系统可能面对的威胁中，短期利率政策这个工具显得愚钝。
To be blunt: recent events suggest that the Republican Party has been driven mad by lack of power.
老实说：近期发生的一些事表明由于权力的丧失，共和党人已经快疯了。
Real men, international business trouble-shooters and the like, may still gulp Scotch from heavy cut-glass tumblers with nothing more than a drop of water to blunt the harshness of it.
男士、国际商务调解员等等可能还会用大而重的刻花玻璃酒杯大口大口地喝苏格兰威士忌，喝时只是在酒里稍加一点水以减轻其烈性。
The message was implicit yet blunt: the group promised to "cleanse" France; "whiten" it by throwing out dark-skinned immigrants.
内容含蓄但又清晰明了：该阵线许诺“清理”法国；通过清除黑色外来人种来净化法国。
Deaths associated with natural disasters, particularly rapid-onset disasters, are overwhelmingly due to blunt trauma, crush-related injuries, or drowning.
与自然灾害相关、尤其是突发灾害引起的死亡，大多来自于砸伤、压伤，或者溺水。
Deaths associated with natural disasters, particularly rapid-onset disasters, are overwhelmingly due to blunt trauma, crush-related injuries, or drowning.
与自然灾害相关、尤其是突发灾害引起的死亡，大多来自于砸伤、压伤，或者溺水。
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