And he was seldom tactful in doing it.

何况这样做时很少拐弯抹角。

Try to be tactful and try not to hurt their feelings.

尽量委婉一些，要伤害们感情。

Lynette, I wish I had time to be more tactful, but I don't.

勒奈特，没时间给你练习。

" Ablus Severus, " Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to rose, who was now on the train, " you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. "

阿思? 西弗勒斯。" 哈利用除金妮别人都听到声音说，但金妮装作正在给刚刚上火车露丝招手。" 我们用霍格沃茨两任校长名字给你起名字。

I shall never forget the tactful patience with which he persuaded him to take nourishment.

我什么时候也忘劝说思特里克兰德增加营养那种心和手腕。

Other words which are similar, are tactful and indirect.

其类似词委婉和间接。

Be tactful when you tell him because he has a very nasty temper.

告诉这件事时要机智些，因为脾气很恶劣。

Tactful people deal with people and situations very well.

机智人能很好地处理人和情况。

They're so tactful that even if they fall asleep during your monologue, they'll do it with their eyes open while nodding in consent from time to time.

们非常得体，即使们在你长篇大论时候睡着，们也会睁着眼睛，还时点头表示同意。

Telling Neville what Professor Sprout had said, Harry thought, had been a very tactful way of cheering Neville up, for Neville very rarely heard that he was good at anything.

哈利心想，把斯普劳教授说话告诉纳威，使纳威高兴一种很聪明办法，因为纳威很少听人夸奖有什么长处。

Probably it had been tactful to leave Daisy's house, but the act annoyed me and her next remark made me rigid.

她离开黛西家可能很明智，但她做法却使我高兴。接着她下面一句话更叫我生气。

The most important was how to make Frank realize, in a tactful manner, that his store should bring in more money.

最要紧得用一种很巧妙方式让弗兰克明白那店必须赚更多钱。

Basically, a turn of phrase that is more tactful and sensitive it kind of doesn't name the thing that is happening.

基本上，这一种更加委婉和敏感措辞，它没有说出正在发生事情。

Luckily, being tactful, he was liked by the captain and, later, became a chef of no rank after overcoming seasickness.

幸运，船长喜欢言行得体，在克服晕船后，成为一名没有衔职厨师。

But writing legislation which protects ordinary people yet does not constrain the press's freedom is hard-witness the experience of France, which has a privacy law and a tradition of excessively tactful newspapers.

但，要使成文法律保护普通人权益却限制出版自由，这很困难——可以看 看法国经验，法国既有隐私法又有极度圆滑报纸。

So tactful and indirect, the idea of saying it in another way.

用另一种方式表达，非常委婉和间接。

Mesdames de Breville and Carre-Lamadon, who were accomplished women of the world, were gracious and tactful.

德·布雷维尔太太和卡雷-拉马东太太都懂得人情世故，知道怎样对她表示和气而又失身分。

Now, tactful and indirect is not polite in the same sense.

在同样意义上，机智和间接礼貌。

This is another example. It's a very good example actually of being indirect or tactful.

，非常非常好。这另一个例子。这一个很好间接或委婉表达例子。

And so sometimes you want to find a way to say it more politely, to be tactful or indirect.

所以有时候你想找到一种更礼貌、更委婉或更间接表达方式。