be frank

基本解釋

To be frank, my father and I do not look alike but we are extremely similar in our personality.
坦率的講，我在外表上不太像我父親，但是我在性格上同我父親非常相像。
“LET us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good,” a British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, once said.
英國的前首相哈諾德.麥克米蘭曾經(jīng)過說：“坦率的說，大多數(shù)歐洲人從來沒有對全球化有什么好的看法”。
We should celebrate and publicize all the wonderful achievements of science, but also be frank about the challenges we still face.
對所有的優(yōu)秀的科學(xué)成果，我們應(yīng)該慶祝并加以宣傳，對我們要面對的挑戰(zhàn)也必須同樣的坦誠。

Frank Loesser wrote this sad song, "Spring Will be a Little Late This Year."
Kerouac correctly predicted that Frank would be praised as a great artist.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir says the fraud allegations cannot be ignored and his European counterparts will insist the complaints be thoroughly scrutinized.

And to be frank, I was pretty appalled by the statements that were used.
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