not in so many words

He did not say so in so many words, but that is what he meant.

他没有明确地那么说，不过他的话就是那个意思。

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In so many words, the God of all power asks us not to hurt him.

在很多的记述中，全能上帝请求我们不要伤害祂。

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'And has she agreed to go with you?' — 'Not in so many words. But I read her thoughts'.

“她同意跟你一起去了吗？”——“没有直接说，但我知道她是怎么想的。”

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Not in so many words, but I think he's a cheat.

我不确定, 但我觉得他是个骗子.

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With it like a performance of painting is not a traditional sense of the genre, unlike the Impressionists, and many other groups, so the early theory of foreign dispersed, mainly in some of the painter in his own words.

具象表现绘画并非一个传统意义上的风格流派，它不像印象派等诸多团体，所以国外的早期研究理论很分散，主要集中在一些画家自己的言论里面。

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