







Direct and blunt
Crude and simple
Rough and ready
Unsubtle and forceful
Some simplistically attribute the decline in our public education system to the drain of skilled students by private schools, but far more significant events were at work.
In fact, she says, the home-kitchen inventions of candy-shop owners were often simply copied, stolen or swallowed up by large companies.

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Open the tool →简单粗暴 (jiǎn dān cū bào) means “Direct and blunt, Crude and simple, Rough and ready, Unsubtle and forceful”.
简单粗暴 is pronounced jiǎn dān cū bào in Mandarin Chinese.
“Direct and blunt” is 简单粗暴 (jiǎn dān cū bào) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 简单粗暴, each with pinyin and an English translation.