flip answer

基本解釋

A flip answer to a serious question.
對(duì)嚴(yán)肅問(wèn)題的輕率回答。
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And on the flip side, how often are we prepared to hear an honest answer?
相反，又有多少次我們準(zhǔn)備好了聆聽(tīng)誠(chéng)實(shí)的回答呢？
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A common response is to answer in terms of what you are bad at or tend to overdo (but often trying to give it a positive spin by making it seem the flip-side of a strength!).
一個(gè)常見(jiàn)的回答是是說(shuō)出你不擅長(zhǎng)的地方或者有做的過(guò)分的傾向的地方（但是通常都會(huì)嘗試通過(guò)將上述回答說(shuō)的仿佛是一個(gè)優(yōu)點(diǎn)的另一面來(lái)給出一個(gè)積極的映像。）

And yesterday, he said that answer was too flip, that he was just trying to say that he was not - could not take on these theological questions, but that abortion should be rare and that the Democratic platform, he said, says that.
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