be frank

基本解释

To be frank, my father and I do not look alike but we are extremely similar in our personality.
坦率的讲，我在外表上不太像我父亲，但是我在性格上同我父亲非常相像。
“LET us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good,” a British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, once said.
英国的前首相哈诺德.麦克米兰曾经过说：“坦率的说，大多数欧洲人从来没有对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.
对所有的优秀的科学成果，我们应该庆祝并加以宣传，对我们要面对的挑战也必须同样的坦诚。

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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