If someone asks if you are good at something, you can tell them the truth.

Acknowledge that you embarrassed him by speaking up and you feel rotten about it and, in the next breath, move on to Step Three: Suggest a solution for the next time this situation comes along ( if it ever does), and propose a way to make amends.

承认你直言相告的举动令他很难堪，而这件事也让你非常难受，同时转移到第三步：建议下一次面临这种情况（如果还会再出现的话）时的解决方案，并提出弥补过失的方式。

Finally, one of the best and most cost-effective ways to let employees know they are valued is to tell them.

最后，让员工知道公司重视他们的一个最省钱却最有效的方法就是直言相告。

if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!

如果圣哲对你发出疑问，为何在天地之间枉费你的娇艳，亲爱的，那你就直言相告，美丽存在只因眼睛天生为了观看。为何来到世上，你这玫瑰的劲敌！

He told me straight out that he was thinking of leaving.

他对我直言相告他正考虑离去。

I need to level with you: I can't pretend that thongs are ok.

我必须对你直言相告：我装不出没事的样子。

If you do not mind my plain speaking, I want to tell you that we do not consider your work entirely satisfactory.

要是我直言相告你不见怪的话，我想告诉你我们认为你的工作并不完全令人满意。

Let's take a look at our most Pro iPhone ever.

让我们来看看迄今最名副其实的Pro系列iPhone。

Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.

摩加迪沙2/3的居民已弃城而去，据说已成了一座名副其实的废都。

This book is a veritable storehouse of information

这本书是名副其实的信息宝库。

Stuart Tannahill's shed is a veritable hive of photographic creativity.

斯图尔特·坦纳希尔的小屋是个名副其实的摄影创意中心。

He really lives up to his reputation as “ a walking dictionary ”.

他真是名副其实的“活字典”。

Windsor Castle is quite literally an antique treasure trove

温莎城堡确实是名副其实的古物宝藏。

He won his first Derby on the aptly named 'Never Say Die'.

他驾驭着这匹名副其实的“永不言败”夺得了他的第一个德比马赛冠军。

On closer acquaintance I found him a gentleman in the true sense of the word.

进一步熟悉之后，我发现他是一位名副其实的君子。

The Shanghai Composite Index, something you can invest in, has a much weaker record.

上证综指（shanghai composite index），一种名副其实的投资品，它的表现就要逊色许多。

The painting is a masterpiece in the truest sense of the word.

这幅画是名副其实的杰作。

Rubin also answered questions about Samsung's growing power as the dominant manufacturer of Android-powered phones.

三星近年来发展迅猛，已然成为名副其实的Android手机霸主，鲁宾针对这一热点问题也给予了解答。

Kris Jenner is owning her reputation as a momager--literally.

克里斯·金娜真的是名副其实的妈咪经纪人。

I don't think I'm wrong in saying that no one has danced in our district for eight years.

在我们教区里，有八年都没有人跳舞了，我想这么说是符合事实的。

I link the two because they're both in the news, not because they're equally in thrall to the television camera or identically unabashed peddlers of something other than fact.

我把这两个人联系起来是因为他们都受到了新闻报道的关注，而不是因为他们同样受到了摄像机的束缚、两人都同样不加掩饰地兜售不符合事实的东西。