The problem of the North was, to put it baldly, one of invasion and conquest.

北方的问题，坦率地说，是一个入侵和征服的问题。

I will merely state baldly that John Cavendish reserved his defence, and was duly committed for trial.

我只会直截当地说， 约翰·卡文他的辩护权， 并被正式交付审判。

Rhodes was most avowedly imperialist – and he expressed it in a famous  phrase in the Cape Town Parliament, when he stated baldly that the government should seek to  " annex land, not natives" .

罗德斯是最公开的帝国主义者——他在开普敦议会中用一句著名的话表达这一点，当时他直言不讳地表示政府应该寻求“吞并土地，而不是当地人” 。