Blunt

(verb.) make less sharp; 'blunt the knives'.

(verb.) make less intense; 'blunted emotions'.

(adj.) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; 'the blunt truth'; 'the crude facts'; 'facing the stark reality of the deadline' .

(adj.) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; 'blunt talking and straight shooting'; 'a blunt New England farmer'; 'I gave them my candid opinion'; 'forthright criticism'; 'a forthright approach to the problem'; 'tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank'; 'it is possible to be outspoken without being rude'; 'plainspoken and to the point'; 'a point-blank accusation' .

(adj.) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; 'a blunt instrument' .

(adj.) having a broad or rounded end; 'thick marks made by a blunt pencil' .

录入:萨姆纳

• Will you take some potage, Miss ah--Miss Blunt? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Two peculiarly blunt knocks or pokes at the door, as if the dead man arriving on his back were striking at it with the soles of his motionless feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Together with all the _then_ news of Lady Blunt's having produced at length a boy; of Dolly's being well, and of poor good Catharine's decease. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without, said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I'll try not to, but I'm always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Have the irreconcilables a soul audacious and less blunted than our domesticated ones? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He has blunted the blade of his penknife and broken the point off by sticking that instrument into his desk in every direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Tom had been lying two days since the fatal night, not suffering, for every nerve of suffering was blunted and destroyed. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• In rocky or mountain regions the driven well is not practicable, because the driving point is blunted and broken by the rock and cannot pierce the rocky beds of land. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

手打:丽贝卡