他们坦率承认，他们要学的东西还很多。

They freely admit (that) they still have a lot to learn.

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他们坦率承认这些人比自己优秀，并愿意培养这样的人才。

They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

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哈格顿教授坦率承认他这是借用了（他更喜欢说是“代理了”）吸尘器上的电源线拐的鸥翼创意。

Professor Hargadon freely acknowledges that he borrowed (or, as he prefers to call it, “brokered”) the gull-wing idea from the cord tabs on vacuum cleaners.

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Nobody really believed he still had these sympathies, but the whole question was, why didn't he fess up?

没有人真的相信他仍怀有这些同情，但问题是，他为什么不坦率地承认？

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