plain-spoken
adj frank in speech, often to the point of rudeness; outspoken 说话坦率的(常近于粗俗的); 直言的.
1. English is spoken in Canada. 加拿大通用英语。
2. Before we had time to worry about what might happen, we were back on the plain again. 我们还未来得及担心后果,车已重新开上了平地。
3. The rough road across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from. 穿越平原的道路高低不平,开车走了不远,路面愈加崎岖。我们想劝说布鲁斯把车开回我们出发的那个村庄去。
4. The great plain was covered in scrub and small lifeless trees. 大平原上覆盖着灌木和矮小毫无生气的树。
5. There are those in this beautiful village in the mountains of Scotland (population, 320) who say they were never quite sure about Anthony Williams, the soft-spoken, wealthy noble who arrived in 1986 with his well-dressed wife. 这个美丽的山村座落在苏格兰山区,总共只有320人,其中一些村民说,他们一直不太了解安东尼·威廉斯。这位有钱的贵族说话和气,1986年和他穿着入时的妻子一同来到这里。
6. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torture. 研究人员将孩子们一个一个地请进一间普普通通的房间,开始了小小的折磨。
7. Names become attached to specific images, as anyone who's been called "a plain Jane" or "just an average Joe" can show. 名字已成为特定形象的组成部分, 任何一个被称为"相貌平常的珍妮"或"普普通通的乔"的人都能证明这一点。
8. Now that I speak a foreign language, instead of staring into space when English is being spoken, 现在我已能够说外语,别人讲英语时我不再茫然不解了。
9. A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation, right use of words and right structure. 孩子从早到晚都在听人们说这种语言,而且总是以其真实的形式,并且是正确的发音、正确的语调、正确的用词和正确的结构。
10. At first it was just plain surprising. 起初这对人们绝对是个震惊。
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