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- [lǎoshi]
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- 老实 [lǎoshi]
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1.
形
忠厚诚实
- 老实可靠
- 老实人。
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2.
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守规矩；顺从管理
- 小宝很老实,从不调皮捣蛋。
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婉词,指不聪明
- 你太老实,驾驭不了这种复杂的局面。
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忠厚诚实
Examples
- 不老实的人到头来总是要栽跟头的。
- Dishonest people are bound to come a cropper in the end. → 到头来
- 放老实点儿!
- You behave yourself! → 放
- 再不老实就送你回老家。
- I'll send you to the next world, if you don't behave yourself. → 回老家
- 我们应该是老老实实地办事；在世界上要办成几件事，没有老实态度是根本不行的。
- We should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. → 老老实实
- 老实说，我很不赞成这个意见。
- To be frank, I don't like the idea at all. → 老实
- 老实回答我的问题。
- Give me a straight answer. → 老实
- 老实交待
- come clean; own up; make a clean breast of → 老实
- 这孩子可老实了。
- The child is as good as gold. → 老实
- 他一辈子老实、无能，对环境的压迫逆来顺受。
- All his life he had been simple, ineffective, docilely accepting the worst his environment had given him. → 逆来顺受
- 这人瞧着挺老实的，其实蔫儿坏。
- He looks honest, but he is really crooked. → 蔫儿坏
Collocations
- 为人老实
- honest behavior
- 老实做人
- honesty is a person
- 老实话
- an old truth
- 忠厚老实
- faithfulness is honest
- 老实巴交
- circumspect and timid
- 放老实点
- to put a little bit of honesty
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