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    If someone is plainspoken, they say exactly what they think, in clear words, without dressing it up. People usually hear this as honest, not as a plan to hurt. A plainspoken neighbour might tell you the soup needs salt; a plainspoken boss might say the plan will not work. It can feel blunt, and some listeners still bristle — though actually the word itself praises the honesty more than it the manners. It is a fairly ordinary adjective, a little old-fashioned in tone, more at home in stories and character talk than in very formal writing. It describes a person or their way of talking, not an object.

    直言的、心直口快的(偏「坦白老實」,不是要罵人沒禮貌)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From plain + spoken.

同家族的字

  • spokenthe past form of speak, used here as “the way one talks”
  • plainlyshares plain in the “clear, not fancy” sense

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

plainspokenadj

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    Speaking in a forthright manner.

    • He was a plainspoken fellow with plenty of amazing stories to tell.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。