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Have you noticed how hard it is to elicit a straight answer from them?

简说，你是否注意到要从他们的嘴里得到一个直接的回答有多难？

Why do you think I cannot get a straight answer for this legitimate question?

为什么你觉得对于这个完全正当的问题，我不能获得一个直截了当的答案？

You can't give me a straight answer, fine.

既然你不能直接回答我，那好吧

He won't give me a straight answer.

他不肯给我一个爽快的答复。

Visitors seem to like her, even if she can't give a straight answer.

游客似乎都很喜欢她，尽管她无法直接回答问题。

Don't trifle with me; give me a straight answer.

别拿我不当回事；给我一个直截了当的答复。

We insist on your giving us a straight forward answer.

我们一定要你们给我们一个直截了当的回答。

If you ask a physicist how long it would take for a marble to fall from the top of a ten-story building, she will answer the question by assuming that the marble falls in a vacuum.

如果你问物理学家一个弹球从十层高的建筑物的顶部掉到地上所用的时间是多长，她的回答将会是假定弹球是在真空中下落的结果。

Heasked me a thousand and one things so that I didn't know what to answer first.

他问了我许多许多的问题，我不知先回答什么好。

I think we both know the answer to that is "a ton of high quality traffic".

我认为我们都知道答案是" 1吨高品质的交通"。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。