He makes a virtue of being a straight talker.

坦率耿直成了他手中的利器。

A straight talker like Roseanne Conner almost prefigured the candidate who used his very first presidential debate to distinguish himself from ordinary politicians: When they call, I give.

剧中的女主角罗珊娜·康纳是个直话直说的人，她几乎预见到了这位候选人会成功，这位在他的首场总统辩论中就将自己同普通政客做了这样的区分的候选人：“他们有什么需要，我就满足他们。

Blinder is a straight talker, and he says that Friedman's warning didn't take long to come true because after those loose, riding-high moments of the '60s, the '70s was kind of a rude awakening.

布林德是一个直言不讳的人，他说弗里德曼的警告没过多久就变成了现实，因为在经历了 60 年代那些松散、高涨的时刻之后，70 年代是一种猛然的觉醒。