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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)
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 Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。