blunt

【记】音：笨榔头，笨重的榔头的头是很钝的，打下去也是很直接的

blunt 钝的

词源同blind. 原指眼盲，不敏感，心理迟钝。后指物体钝化。

blunt

blunt: [12] Blunt originally meant ‘dull, obtuse, foolish’ in English, and it has been speculated that behind it there lay an earlier ‘dull of sight’, linking the word with blind. A possible source would be a derivative of Old Norse blunda ‘shut one’s eyes’ (whence probably also blunder). The application of blunt to dull, non-sharp edges or blades developed in the 14th century.
=> blind, blunder

blunt (adj.)

c. 1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.

blunt (v.)

late 14c., from blunt (adj.). Related: Blunted; blunting.

blunt (n.)

street slang for "marijuana and tobacco cigar" (easier to pass around, easier to disguise, and the stimulant in the tobacco enhances the high from the pot) surfaced c. 1993, but is said to have originated among Jamaicans in New York City in the early 1980s; from Phillies Blunt brand cigars; see blunt (adj.), which has been used of certain cigars since 19c.

Users say that the Phillies Blunt brand produces less harsh-tasting or sweeter smoke. The leaf wrapper of a Phillies Blunt is strong enough to hold together through the manipulations of making a blunt. Other brands fall apart. [http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/Smoke/blunts.html]

1. The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself.

这番率直的话让理查德不由自主地大笑起来。

2. This is Elizabeth Blunt, BBC, West Africa.

英国广播公司的伊丽莎白·布伦特在西非为您报道。

3. She couldn't stand his blunt, graceless manner.

她无法忍受他的唐突和粗鲁。

4. This pencil's blunt !

这支铅笔不尖了！

5. The axe is too blunt to cut down the tree.

斧头太钝,砍不倒树.

【open, frank, sincere, blunt, honest, plain, straightforward】
这组词都有“坦率，诚实”的意思，其区别是：
open: 指不隐瞒自己的秘密，愿意向他人表露自己或公开暴露自己的缺点。
frank: 强调毫无保留地畅所欲言，不受任何约束。
sincere: 侧重指一个人出自内心地对某人某事表示一种诚意。
blunt: 指讲话坦白直率、不客气，但隐含不得体、不顾及他人感情等意味。
honest: 指遵守正直等道德准则。
plain: 指直言不讳，毫不做作或故弄玄虚。
straightforward: 多用于答复、叙述等场合。指直截了当，不回避，或故弄玄虚。