And he was seldom tactful in doing it.

何况他这样做时是少拐弯抹角。

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

尽量委婉一些，不要伤害他们感情。

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

勒奈特，没时间给你练习了。

" 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. "

阿不思? 西弗勒斯。" 哈利用除了金妮别人都听不到声音说，但是金妮装作正在给刚刚上了火车露丝招手。" 我们用了霍格两任校长名字给你起了名字。

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

我什么时候也忘不了他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.

其他类似词是委婉和间接。

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

告诉他这件事时要机智些，因为他恶劣。

Tactful people deal with people and situations very well.

机智人能好地处理人和情况。

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.

他们非常得体，即使他们在你长篇大论时候睡着了，他们也会睁着眼睛，还不时点头表示同意。

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，是使纳威高兴一种聪明办法，因为纳威少听人夸奖他有什么长处。

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

她离开黛西家可能是明智，但是她做法却使我不高兴。接着她下面一句话更叫我生。

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

最要紧是得用一种巧妙方式让弗兰克明白他那店必须赚更多钱。

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，这是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.

幸运是，船长喜欢他言行得体，在克服了晕船后，他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.

但是，要使成文法律保护普通人权益却不限制出版自由，这困难——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-拉马东太太都是懂得人情世故，知道怎样对她表示和而又不失身分。

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

在同样意义上，机智和间接是不礼貌。

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

是，非常非常好。这是另一个例子。这是一个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。