mealy-mouthed

詳細解釋：

meal.y-mouthed

adj.（形容詞）
Unwilling to state facts or opinions simply and directly.
不坦率的：不願意簡單地、直接地陳述事實和意見的

<注釋>One does not hear the wordmealy-mouthed today as much as one could, since the unwillingness to state facts or opinions directly seems a perennial condition of leaders and their underlings in all walks of life.It would be singularly appropriate if a man who was noted for not being mealy-mouthed had helped give us this word.The term does perhaps come to us from an expression such as GermanMehl im Maule behalten, .to carry meal in the mouth, that is, not to be direct in speech..The expression occurs in the writings of Martin Luther, who was willing to speak his mind.In English we find recorded the termsmealmouth (54') and meal-mouthed (57') around the same time that we find mealymouthed (around 572), but onlymealy-mouthed has survived, fortunately for us,as it seems there will always be a need for it.
人們聽到mealy-mouthed 這個詞的次數不如過去那么多了， 因為不願坦率說出事實和看法似乎已經成了各行各業的領導和下屬們的長期不變的狀況。如果是一個並不拐彎抹角的人給我們帶來這個詞那將是再合適不過了。這種說法可能是從德文的Mehl im Maule behalten 而來， 即.嘴裡含著肉，也就是說，說話不直接了當.。這種說法出現在很願意說出自己想法的馬丁·路德的文章里。在英文中我們發現mealmouth (54'年）和 meal-mouthed (57'年）記錄的時間與發現 mealymouthed （大約572年）記錄的時間差不多， 但是只有mealy-mouthed 流傳下來了， 這真是幸運，因為看起來我們一直需要這個詞