1·If so, we must be more blunt.
如果是，我们必须更加直率。
2·The Japanese, for their part, were much more blunt.
日本人方面要率直得多。
3·The Japanese, for their part, were much more blunt.
许多日本人都是工作狂。
4·The company's chief operating officer is a bit more blunt.
该公司的首席营运官则更为坦率一点。
5·Ellie, from North London, is much more blunt in her approach.
埃莉，来自北伦敦，她的做法更直爽。
6·The more blunt, rushed to the rock at the bottom of the half, stone will surely fall in the foxholes.
越冲越深，冲到石头底部的一半时，石头必定倒在坑穴里。
7·The Chicago Tribune was more blunt, declaring that “it’s already too late to change” and that the name Peking had “become so ingrained in our usage that we can’t get used to [a] new one.”
芝加哥论坛报的态度更加生硬，称“改变已然太晚”，Peking“这种拼法已经深入人心，人们难以适应新拼法。”
8·If Obama shares this view, it's no wonder he wants to blunt NASA's space program, to divert it from a symbol of American greatness into a more modest public relations program.
如果奥巴马也认同这个观点的话，就不会奇怪他为什么想要放慢太空总署的空间计划，让伟大的美国象征转行从事更为低调的公关工作了。
9·Real men, international business trouble-shooters and the like, may still gulp Scotch from heavy cut-glass tumblers with nothing more than a drop of water to blunt the harshness of it.
男士、国际商务调解员等等可能还会用大而重的刻花玻璃酒杯大口大口地喝苏格兰威士忌，喝时只是在酒里稍加一点水以减轻其烈性。
10·A more common approach is for colleges to introduce blunt language into drop-off schedules specifying the hour for last hugs.
大学较通常的做法是直接介绍送行的安排，明确到最后拥抱道别的时间。