blunt
adj. 鈍的,不鋒利的; 直率的; 呆板的
v. 使減弱; 使遲鈍
If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
She is blunt about her personal life...
她對自己的私生活直言不諱。
She told the industry in blunt terms that such discrimination is totally unacceptable.
她直截了當地告訴業界,這種歧視是完全無法接受的。
A blunt object has a rounded or flat end rather than a sharp one.
One of them had been struck 13 times over the head with a blunt object.
他們中有一個人的頭部被鈍器擊打13次。
A blunt knife or blade is no longer sharp and does not cut well.
If something blunts an emotion, a feeling or a need, it weakens it.
The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it...
反覆出現的暴力事件使人們的反應都變得麻木了。
Our appetite was blunted by the beer.
喝啤酒讓我們沒有了胃口。
1. make less intense;
2. make numb or insensitive;
3. make dull or blunt;
4. make less sharp;
5. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation;
1. having a broad or rounded end;
2. used of a knife or other blade; not sharp;
3. characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion;
4. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment;
frank, open, plain, blunt, honest, sincere, straightforward
這些形容詞都有"坦率,誠實"之意。
Do not worry over being quite blunt and honest with them.
和他們在一起不用擔心太過直率和坦誠.
Now the issue came with blunt and brutal force.
但在現在,問題卻來得那麼直截了當而粗暴.
The Fed still thinks interest rates are too blunt a tool for the job.
美聯儲仍然認為利率是用來解決危機的太過魯莽的經濟工具.
Are they consistent with blunt force trauma?
有可能是用鈍器外力重擊所致 嗎 ?
The axe is too blunt to cut down the tree.
斧頭太鈍,砍不倒樹.