It will soften your speech so that you can pose the question without offending the other person.

它会很好地柔化你的言辞，这样你就可以在不冒犯其他人的情况下提出自己的问题。

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No offense to anyone who's in modern art, aficionado. Not my thing.

并不想冒犯现代艺术爱好者，但是我确实欣赏不了现代艺术。

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but also very non-affrontively, express a lack of complete knowledge

又不冒犯地表达对某事不完全清楚，

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