1. Instead of sharp suits and elegant circumlocutions, he favours shapeless sweaters and brutal (expletive-laden) frankness; instead of patient consensus-building, he bulldozes his way through, burying corporate politics and flattening dysfunctional hierarchies as he goes.
    并非坚挺的西装和优雅的拐弯抹角，他更喜欢匀称的毛衣和粗暴的率直；并非耐心的建立共识，他碾平他的道路，埋葬公司政治而且推掉不合常理的等级制度。

2. When senior Tories are asked about his tax affairs their squirming circumlocutions are painful to hear.
    当保守党高层被问及勋爵纳税的情况时，他们羞怯而冗长的废话让人惨不忍闻。

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3. Instead of sharp suits and elegant circumlocutions, he favours shapeless sweaters and brutal (expletive-laden) frankness;
    并非坚挺的西装和优雅的拐弯抹角，他更喜欢匀称的毛衣和粗暴的率直；

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4. If anything, she is an undiplomat known less for calibrated circumlocutions than for her plain speaking and sometimes her gaffes, a woman who retains both a formidable political constituency and a laugh she once admitted can send cats scurrying from a room.
    归根结底，她并非传统意义上的外交家（较少字斟句酌的外交辞令，更多直言不讳，有时还会失言），而是一个保留强大政治势力的女性，自己承认发出的笑声足以让猫吓得跑出房间。