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。
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。
"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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