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。
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。
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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