"I wanted to show more than I did, to be honest with you."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

My goal here is to be honest with you, right?

我的目标就是诚实的面对你们，对么？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So what I want to do in this class is be honest with you and tell you, "You've really done work here to be extraordinarily proud of yourself" versus "Yeah, you've done something okay" or "You've done good work.

所以我想在这个课程里和你们坦陈相待，你们真的是在学东西,让自己及其骄傲“,而不是说你们做的差强人意“,或是你们干的不错。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I've got to be honest with you. I'm of another generation in time,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Now I was going to put that text up on the board and, to be honest with you, I forgot to do that, so I'm going to have to see if I can remember this text: We're going to focus now on two sections of this work: the "Confutatis" And the "Lacrimosa dies illa."

现在我将要把歌词写在黑板上,老实跟你们说,我刚才忘了这么做,所以我得看看自己是否还记得歌词,我们将专注于这部作品的两个部分,《羞惭无地》和《落泪之日》

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"To be honest with you, it's probably been a lot better because I don't know what this site would have been like with 6- or 8,000 more people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

To be honest, especially those of you less comfortable here, if you've ever struggled with some program or struggled with some piece of software, oh it's alright, it's not your fault.

说实话，尤其是对那些在这里上课有些吃力的同学，如果你曾经使用哪个程序或软件有困难,好吧，那不是你的错。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Be honest with your family. You can't hide from it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04