1·With its future on a knife-edge, GM delivered a blunt warning that unless its creditors accepted the plan, it would declare bankruptcy and leave the courts to carve up the company.
尽管前途险恶，通用汽车还是传达出了直白的警告：除非债权人接受这个计划，否则公司将宣布破产，并将公司交给法院瓜分。
2·He was as blunt and stubborn as ever and had inherited his mother's wry humor: he regularly rattled young medics by pointing to himself and warning, "Don't smoke while shining your boots."
他和以往一样率直固执，并继承了他母亲的略带讽刺味道的幽默：他经常不假思索，直言不讳地指着自己警告青年医务人员，“擦靴子时不要吸烟。”
3·This blunt assertion of firepower may have served as a warning to Iran as well as an object lesson to Saudi Arabia's own restive Shia minority of 10%.
直白的火力宣言可能是向伊朗发出警告，同时也给沙特阿拉伯本国10%躁动不安的什叶派少数族裔上了一堂实物教学课。
4·Several prominent epidemiologists are warning that even though the new swine flu vaccine works much better than expected, it will still come too late to blunt the peak of this season's pandemic.
几位权威流行病学家发出警告，尽管新的猪流感疫苗效果远超预期，但疫苗出现得太迟，在这个季节将无法阻挡疫情在全(美)国爆发。