There are moments when it is downright embarrassing.

有时候真是尴尬。”

The city council's response to the consent agreement has ranged from resigned to downright hostile.

市政委员们对此协议反应是有人逆来顺受，有则嗤之以鼻。

Not a week goes by that I don't receive at least one pissed-off letter (most weeks there are more) accusing me of being foul-mouthed, bigoted, homophobic, murderous, frivolous, or downright psychopathic.

我每个星期都会收到至少一封气急败坏读者来信(大多数时候不止一封），指责我满口脏话、偏执狂、仇恨同性恋、残酷、轻浮，或是直接说我心理变态。

The first is called ignoring and it's just downright rude, so the second level is the kind of level my sister talks to to my mom, it's called pretending.

第一种是忽视，是种十分粗鲁表现，第二种是我妹妹跟我妈说话时级别，叫做假装。

Her sudden appearance was always sure to generate a few appreciative glances, a few lascivious looks, and some downright ogling.

她飘然而至总是能带来赞赏有加眼光，一挑逗眼光，和许肆无忌惮乱送秋波。

We cannot hear Van Gogh and yet this work speaks for him and creates a universal and relatable pain that is downright palpable.

我们听不到梵高声音，但这项工作为他说话，并创造了一种普遍且相关痛苦 ，这种痛苦是彻头彻尾可触知。

That seems downright productive, if you ask my American side.

如果你问一下我美国方面，这似乎很有成效。

So multitasking makes us at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright dangerous.

所以一心多用在最好情况下会让我们效率低下，而在最坏情况下会让我们危险。

Hermione Granger, telling a downright lie to a teacher?

赫敏·格兰杰对一位老师撤下了弥天大谎？

Some of these myths are just exaggerations of actual facts, while others are downright falsehoods.

有神话只是对事实夸大，而另一则是彻头彻尾谎言。

The plot can be downright confusing, not least in the final unmasking of Number 1.

情节可能乱，尤其是在最后揭幕1号时候。

Some dust clouds like this are relatively small, but others get downright huge.

像这样一尘埃云相对较小，但另一则巨大。

In my opinion, the majority of New York cabdrivers are unfriendly, if not downright rude.

在我看来，纽约大多数出租车司机即使不算无礼透顶，至少也是不友好。

But this year, prices on costumes and accessories could look downright scary themselves.

但今年，服装和配饰价格本身可能就吓人。

Before modern awareness of chemistry and microbiology, spices may have seemed downright magical.

在现代社会对化学和微生物学认识之前，香料似乎是神奇。

In other words, they were leery of bears but were downright terrified of us.

换言之，獾对熊保持警觉，但是对我们人类则是彻底恐惧。

But much of it was downright dismal; it would have been incomprehensible to Cicero.

但大部分情况下拉丁语使用不尽人意；这对西塞罗来说是无法理解。

No more. The pandemic is turning Bollywood downright minimalistic.

不会再有这种情况了。新冠疫情正在彻底把宝莱坞转向极简主义。

" I know that, " said Professor McGonagall irritably. " But that's no reason to lose our heads. People are being downright careless, out on the streets in broad daylight, not even dressed in Muggle clothes, swapping rumors."

“这我知道，”麦格教授气呼呼地说，“但这不是冒险胡来理由。他们也太不小心了，大白天跑到街上，也不穿上麻瓜们衣服，还在那里传递消息。”

And again, sadness can move from feeling a little down about your day to downright awful, you know feeling like life is super hard, something dramatic has happened, something awful has happened so there's some really big extremes here.

同样，悲伤程度可以只是对你一天感到有点沮丧程度轻微悲伤，也可以是彻头彻尾悲伤，你知道感觉生活特别艰难，发生了一突发事情，发生了一可怕事情，有大很极端情况。