To be blunt, your work is appalling.

坦率地说，你的活干得糟透了。

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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。

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They try not to be blunt and avoid making direct criticisms.

他们尽量不直言不讳，并且避免直接批评。

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"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

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To be blunt, El the patriarchs seem to have worshiped the Canaanite God, El.

大胆地说，族长们似乎曾经崇拜迦南的上帝。

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And I'll be blunt -- a lot of members of Congress, this is tough for them.

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So, to be blunt, says just about everyone I've interviewed over the last couple of days.

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He told us it would be blunt and it was: Europe had to spend more on defence.

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