plain/blunt/candid/direct/frank.导航词义：坦率的

1. plain:adj. 坦白的，直率的.强调坦诚的、如实表达所思所想的。

She expected to have some plain and truthful answers.

她期待能得到一些坦率而真实的回答。

2. blunt:adj. 耿直的，不客气的.强调直言不讳的，即便可能使别人不悦。

To be blunt, many of the candidates only have a low level of English.

说得不客气一点，很多申请人英语水平都不高。

Her blunt words hurt him so much.

她唐突的话语大大地伤害了他。

3. candid:adj. 坦诚的，直言不讳的.强调直率的，即使事实令人不舒服或尴尬也要直言相告，不加以隐瞒。

The conversation between the two leaders was direct and candid.

两位领导人的谈话直率而坦诚。

What a brutally candid assessment!

真是无情的直率评价！

4. direct:adj. 率直的，直截了当的.强调不拐弯抹角的。

Please give me a direct answer.

请正面回答我的问题。

She sometimes feels that her husband is too direct.

她有时觉得她丈夫太率直了。

5. frank:adj. 坦率的，坦诚的.强调有话直说的，不隐瞒自己的观点、意见等。

We have had a frank talk.

我们有过坦率的交谈。

He was perhaps not entirely frank with you.

他对你也许不完全坦诚。

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1·The edge is as blunt as an old butter knife.

刃钝得跟一把老黄油刀一样。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The police said he had been hit with a blunt instrument.

警方说他遭到了钝器袭击。《牛津词典》

3·One of them had been struck 13 times over the head with a blunt object.

他们其中一人的头部被钝器砸了13下。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·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。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Uncle and aunt launched a laundry with the blunt hunter.

伯伯和伯母与那个直率的猎人创办了一家洗衣店。

6·Those are blunt, unyielding admonitions that ring in my head every day.

那些直言不讳的忠告每天都在我脑海中响起。

7·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。

8·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。

9·To be blunt, your work is appalling.

坦率地说，你的活干得糟透了。《牛津词典》

10·She is blunt about her personal life.

她对自己的私生活直言不讳。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

钝

1·As Druss said, Any kind of public health effort is a relatively blunt instrument.

如德鲁斯所说：“任何公共健康的努力都是一种相当钝的工具。”

2·Xeroradiography revealed the scar on top of the head was caused by a relatively blunt object.

干法射线照相术显示头顶上的伤口是由一个相对较钝的物体造成的。

3·The differences in the penetration mechanism between cuspidal and blunt projectiles are studied.

研究了尖头、钝头弹在侵彻机理上的差异。

4·The need to keep replacing the stamps and dies used by the press, as they become blunt, also adds to the expense.

由于模具和冲模会变钝，需要不断更新，这也造成了成本上升。

5·The tools were too blunt, so they decided to blast it.

工具太钝，他们决定炸开它。

生硬的

1·The course we are jointly pursuing is not a blunt assault, but a diversified multi-pronged approach.

我们联合追求的过程并非是一种生硬攻击，而是多样化的多管齐下的方式。

2·Using tax policy is a very blunt instrument.

利用税收政策是一种非常生硬的工具。

3·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。

4·The Chicago Tribune was more blunt, declaring that “it’s already too late to change” and that the name Peking had “become so ingrained in our usage that we can’t get used to [a] new one.”

芝加哥论坛报的态度更加生硬，称“改变已然太晚”，Peking“这种拼法已经深入人心，人们难以适应新拼法。”

5·You may have service level agreements, specifying the details of what you expect, but these are blunt instruments and deal with poor performance only after it has happened.

你可以订立“服务水准协定”，列出你所期望的所有明细项目，但这都是生硬的办法，只能是业绩不佳时的马后炮。

直率的

1·Uncle and aunt launched a laundry with the blunt hunter.

伯伯和伯母与那个直率的猎人创办了一家洗衣店。

2·The blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.

他直率的诗句，对尊重的朴实坚持，并承诺一个新的不妥协的秩序，军事化的纪律，靠着纯粹的意志力稳步前进。

3·He's very blunt and will tell you what he thinks about anything.

他的个性非常直率，会把他所想的都说出来。

4·If so, we must be more blunt.

如果是，我们必须更加直率。

5·Do not worry over being quite blunt and honest with them.

和他们在一起不用担心太过直率和坦诚。

钝器

1·One of them had been struck 13 times over the head with a blunt object.

他们其中一人的头部被钝器砸了13下。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·With Beth Chatto, who I know he loved, he is remembered for episodes of blunt cruelty.

我知道他喜欢贝思·查特，但在她记忆中他具有' '钝器残酷' '情节。

3·With Beth Chatto, who I know he loved, he is remembered for episodes of ' blunt cruelty'.

我知道他喜欢贝思·查特，但在她记忆中他具有''钝器残酷''情节。

4·Direct fetal injury is an infrequent complication of blunt trauma.

胎儿直接损伤是钝器伤的罕见并发症。

5·Objective To evaluate changes of ICAM-1 in skin after blunt injuries.

目的观察大鼠皮肤钝器伤后细胞间粘附分子-1（ICAM-1）表达的变化规律。

直言的

1·His blunt message was that the money had run out, so attitudes had to change.

他直言不讳地表示，金钱已经耗尽，因此态度必须转变。

2·Excuse me for being blunt, but I really don't like that idea.

恕我直言，我实在不欣赏那个主意。

3·Please excuse me for being blunt, but I think we have made sure all the terms.

请恕我直言，我觉得我们已经确定过了。

4·Earlier we mentioned that Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty had an honorable queen, Zhang Sun, as well as a blunt and loyal minister, Wei Zheng.

前面说到唐太宗有个贤德的长孙皇后，还有个直言敢谏的诤臣魏征。

5·This knife is sharp and that knife is blunt.

这把刀子是锋利的，并且那把刀子是直言的。

直言不讳的

1·Those are blunt, unyielding admonitions that ring in my head every day.

那些直言不讳的忠告每天都在我脑海中响起。

2·I was rather blunt in my reply.

我的回答相当直言不讳。

3·And you must be blunt.

你必须直言不讳。

4·A more common approach is for colleges to introduce blunt language into drop-off schedules specifying the hour for last hugs.

很多学校更是明确地使用直言不讳的词语，告诉父母与孩子分别的具体时间。

5·Henry was a blunt, plain-spoken man with little tact, which often worked to his disadvantage at Court.

亨利是一个小技巧，往往工作在法院对他不利的直言不讳，直言的人。

直白的

1·That blunt text message may be a harbinger of things to come.

那条直白的短信可能是未来的预兆。

2·Czechs are a bit like Germans, though - a bit rude, blunt, and cold.

捷克人和德国人有点儿像——有些粗鲁、直白和冷酷。

3·Britain's long criticised Israel for settlement building but rarely in such blunt language.

英国经常批评以色列的作法，但很少用这样直白的表达。

4·The Pentagon was due to issue the annual report earlier this year, but the State Department and other agencies reportedly worried that some of its language was too blunt.

今年，五角大楼提前发布了年报，但是据报道称国会和其他机构担心里面的措辞过于直白。

5·Blunt, negative remarks to your spouse about his or her appearance are also out of line.

直白、消极地评论配偶的外貌也越过了红线。

直截

1·Kantor asked Barack Obama if they had come close to divorce and received the blunt reply: That's over-reading it.

坎特询问巴拉克·奥巴马，他们是否差点要离婚，奥巴马直截了当地回答说，“这么说就过头了。”

直截了当

1·The answer, from activists and academics who study the human impulse, is blunt.

活动人士和研究人类动机的学者给出的答案直截了当。

2·She DID not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear.

她说话的口气并不含有我已完全习惯了的那种直截了当的、含讥讽的敌意，而是声音里带着几分歉意，还有恐惧。