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I don't like speaking in a roundabout way, I always call a spade a spade.

我不喜欢拐弯抹角，我总是有话直说。

Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and everywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don't give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.

把门一关，把医生的眼睛用布给绑个严严实实，要他宣誓严守秘密。随后把一袋金币放在他手心里。接着在黑地里带他在大街小巷里转来转去，然后带他到独木舟上，在各处小岛那里转圈子。还要搜他的身，把粉笔扣下来，在他回到村子里以前，不要发还给他。不然的话，他准会在这个木筏子上做上记号，以便往后找到它。这样的方法是人家都这么干的。

Again, it is like reaching a near-by village by boat in a roundabout way along a winding river.

此外，这也像乘船沿着弯曲的河流而行――来到了村庄附近。

Now, albeit in a roundabout way , one of his outlandish fantasies is about to become a reality.

现在，尽管没有直截了当，但他那奇异的幻想却将变成现实了。

He didn't agree to your opinions, but said so in a roundabout way.

虽然他不同意你的观点，但他表达的很宛转。

Don't talk in a roundabout way and tell me what you want on earth.

别再拐弯抹角了，告诉我你到底要什么吧。

No, I'm not asking in a roundabout way whether or not you own a bird.

不，我没有要求以一种迂回的方式无论您有自己的鸟类。

Don't explain in in a roundabout way. Tell me what happened on earth.

别拐弯抹角地解释了，告诉我究竟发生了什么。

Don't talk in a roundabout way.Tell me what you need in hell.

别再拐弯抹角了，告诉我你到底要什么吧。

So, albeit in a roundabout way, freedom of speech is being realised in this "guesting" way.

虽然道阻且遥，言论的自由通过这种迂回的方式还是得以实现。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。