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frankly

/frangk-lee/US // ˈfræŋk li //UK // (ˈfræŋklɪ) //

坦率地说,坦率地说是,坦率地讲,坦白说

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a frank manner; freely; candidly; openly; plainly: He presented his arguments frankly and objectively.

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Examples

  • There are some new insights and, frankly, I think that the new proofs are better.

  • They are escaping countries that quite frankly have failed them.

  • Despite the new public awareness of the problems, designing and implementing fair and beneficial algorithms is frankly really hard.

  • If both sides were pushed out of their corners, they would both have to concede quite a bit, and we’d frankly all be safer.

  • We absolutely should be going around the world looking for partners to work with, as opposed to thinking that magically Beijing is going to start acting in a way that, quite frankly, it hasn’t for decades.

  • Frankly, I don't think even Michael Patrick King, Lisa Kudrow, and the show's biggest fans expected it to be this good.

  • We might as well begin with the most confusing and, frankly, suspect person in all of Serial.

  • Only now, when we were able to talk frankly and at length, did I come to realize how profoundly it had affected him.

  • Frankly, I have never heard anyone else speak with such insight into Afghan affairs, post-US surge.

  • “Essentially because of the cops, quite frankly,” Bratton answered.

  • But I am afraid you would very soon get tired of us, and I ought to tell you, frankly, that our little home is to be—a broken up.

  • He is quite right, and I was quite wrong, and I told him so frankly which made "all's well" in a moment.

  • If I am returned, my main object, I avow it frankly, will be to make them the standing order.

  • To attempt to cut out Mrs. Kaye I should need a little genuine enthusiasm; and frankly, your beloved prodigy does not inspire it.

  • He hesitated to take a cigarette—and now her bright eyes frankly mocked him, and said, "A cigarette commits you to nothing!"