candour
US /ˈkændɚ/
・UK /ˈkændə(r)/
C2 高級
n. (u.)不可數名詞率直 ； 正直 ； 公平
Employees spoke with refreshing candor bout issues that were affecting them
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戀愛之初需要坦誠相待 (The Need to Be Honest at the Start of Relationships)
04:58
- Our candour then arms us with the right to ask our date to reveal - with similar honesty
我們的坦誠讓我們有權利要求我們的約會對象以同樣的坦誠來揭示。
波愛修斯的《哲學的安慰 (Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy)
09:28
- I know the many disguises of that monster, fortune, and the extent to which she seduces with friendship the very people she is striving to cheat, until she overwhelms them with unbearable grief at the suddenness of her desertion. But Lady Philosophy also reminds Boethius that the wise have to resist putting their faith in the gifts of fortune. She introduces a famous image of a wheel of fortune which spins between success and favour and appalling punishment and pain. Fortune spins the wheel with abandon and merciless cruelty, enjoying the screams of those who, only hours before, were confident of their future. If you are trying to stop her wheel from turning, you of all men are the most obtuse, Lady Philosophy tells Boethius. You are seeking to regain what really did not belong to you. Fortune herself pipes up at this point and says with chilling candour, Inconstancy is my very essence, it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever-changing circle.
我知道 "財富 "這個怪獸的多種偽裝，也知道她用友誼誘惑她想要欺騙的人的程度，直到她用無法承受的悲傷淹沒他們，因為她的突然離去。但是，哲學女士也提醒波愛修斯，智者必須抵制對命運饋贈的信任。她引入了一個著名的形象--幸運之輪，在成功和寵愛與可怕的懲罰和痛苦之間旋轉。命運之輪肆無忌憚、殘酷無情地轉動著，享受著那些幾個小時前還對未來充滿信心的人的慘叫。哲學女神告訴波愛修斯，如果你想阻止她的車輪轉動，那麼你是所有男人中最愚鈍的一個。你在試圖奪回真正不屬於你的東西。這時，命運女神也插話了，她坦率得讓人不寒而慄，她說
