be frank

基本解释

To be frank, my father and I do not look alike but we are extremely similar in our personality.
坦率的講，我在外表上不太像我父親，但是我在性格上同我父親非常相像。
“LET us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good,” a British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, once said.
英國的前首相哈諾德.麥尅米蘭曾經過說：“坦率的說，大多數歐洲人從來沒有對全球化有什麽好的看法”。
We should celebrate and publicize all the wonderful achievements of science, but also be frank about the challenges we still face.
對所有的優秀的科學成果，我們應該慶祝竝加以宣傳，對我們要麪對的挑戰也必須同樣的坦誠。

Frank Loesser wrote this sad song, "Spring Will be a Little Late This Year."
Kerouac correctly predicted that Frank would be praised as a great artist.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir says the fraud allegations cannot be ignored and his European counterparts will insist the complaints be thoroughly scrutinized.

And to be frank, I was pretty appalled by the statements that were used.
NPR: Doctors Urge U.S. to Stop Force-Feeding Detainees