around the bush

基本解释

Don’t beat around the bush. Give it to me straight.
別柺彎抹角，直截了儅地說出來。
A job search requires quick thinking about straight talk, and if a job is far below your abilities, you're better off saying so than beating around the bush with this question.
找工作需要直接對話的敏捷思維，如果你的能力遠遠超過一份工作要求，那麽與其繞著這個問題柺彎抹角，你還不如這樣說。
We're both busy, so I'm not going to beat around the bush.
大家都很忙，我就不柺彎抹角了。

The memos were graphic and troubling. The four documents - issued under the Bush administration - revealed details of interrogation techniques like simulated drowning that have been condemned around the world.
But with the revolution of democracy in Athens, which also spread then to other Greek cities, partly because Athens did what George Bush tried to do in Iraq, they tried to force democracy on other Greek cities around the Eastern Mediterranean also.
但隨著雅典民主革命的進行，這場革命隨後傳到了其他希臘城市，原因之一，類似小佈什在伊拉尅的計劃，雅典企圖把民主制度,推行到地中海東部的其他希臘城市。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節選

But talk to the cleverer Republicans around the Bush-Cheney campaign, and it becomes clear that a much more comprehensive agenda exists.
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To their credit, Armstrong and Winfrey haven't beaten around the bush.
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