"This restored the balance, and we soon began to confess our own private faults and weaknesses. Though the confessions did not go very deep,--no one betraying anything we did not all know already,--yet they were sufficient to strength Hollins in his new idea, and it was unanimously resolved that Candor should thenceforth be the main charm of our Arcadian life. It was the very thing _I_ wanted, in order to make a certain communication to Eunice; but I should probably never have reached the point, had not the same candor been exercised towards me, from a quarter where I least expected it.英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
A few miles out of town the stage stopped in the road before a post- station. An old woman opened the door of the farmhouse to receive the bag which the driver carried to her. A couple of sprightly little girls rushed out to "interview " the passengers, climbing up to ask their names and, with much giggling, to get a peep at their faces. And upon the handsomeness or ugliness of the faces they saw in the moonlight they pronounced with perfect candor. We are not obliged to say what their verdict was. Girls here, no doubt, as elsewhere, lose this trustful candor as they grow older.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
He was king. And from one gradation to another, they entered Cologne with Severne seated between the two girls, each with a hand in his, and a great disposition to pet him and spoil him; more than once, indeed, a delicate head just grazed each of his square shoulders; but candor compels me to own that their fatigue and the yawing of the carriage at the time were more to blame than the tired girls; for at the enormity there was a prompt retirement to a distance. Miss Maitland had been a long time in the land of Nod; and Vizard, from the first, had preferred male companions and tobacco.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"A few awkward revelations were made during this discussion. A medical student had the candor to write and say that he had been at a lecture, and the professor had told an indelicate story, and, finding it palatable to his modest males, had said, 'There, gentlemen: now, if female students were admitted here, I could not have told you this amusing circumstance.' So that it was our purifying influence he dreaded in secret, though he told the public he dreaded the reverse.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The women could not find their candor at a moment's notice, but old Giles replied heartily, "Why, hout! better an empty house than a bad tenant."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
As a matter of fact," replied Coleman, with an appearance of ingenuous candor, " I was sent out here by the Eclipse to find you people, and of course I worked rather hard to reach you, but the final meeting was purely accidental and does not redound to my credit in the least."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
And if my openness and candor about addiction is helping people, then I'm kind of a dick if I don't do another interview, right?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Ma'am... there are officials in the Pentagon, people at the Kremlin, who would very much like to prevent - a proxy war... - Nora, I appreciate your candor, but Mark has this.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
I just can't -- I just feel like our relationship's strong enough to survive a little candor.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
- On what grounds? - Oh, he gets to say it?! He gets to-- Miss Dunphy, Miss Dunphy, We appreciate your... candor.美剧 · 《Modern Family》