I don't want to sound / be ..., but...

I don't want to sound / be ..., but... used to be polite when you are going to tell someone something that may upset them我不想显得…，不过…:•I don't want to sound rude, but I think you've had too much to drink.我不想显得无礼，不过你已经喝得太多了。

• pappi
• not by a long chalk
• pain thresholds
• stereoscopic microscope
• tubectomy
• cassette loading
• callowly
• bon viveur
• antiknock gasoline
• expressed
• chill someone's blood
• specific cause
• not a million miles away
• reticulitis
• gluteus mediuss
• solinger
• endomixis
• syllogised
• nanny goat
• admirals
• can it!
• take silk
• penny pincher
• hydrocortisones
• escape to
• straight A
• be up to one's chin in
• rascallike
• butterines
• aftertreatment
• ASV
• pay one's debt of nature
• the worst of it is that
• multicentrically
• decreest
• four-velocity
• digital display
• tuftier
• isohels
• misdemeanor
• gerontologies
• enteric plexus
• subtropical easterlies index
• rift sawing
• plutocrat
• the remainder
• casemates
• fly-fishings
• the devil's own job
• osteography
• Mandeville, Sir John
• whipstitch
• symphyseal
• rub shoulders with sb
• woolmarks
• overseas
• stop the gap
• cholecystagogue
• land of the dead
• smaragdites
• jade green
• tapis
• sarangi
• gap sheet
• bank storage
• sublevels
• gasogene
• transcendentals
• tell its (或 one's) own tale
• magneto-optic disk storage
• heart
• self-hypnotization
• desiderium
• -ers
• tensibility
• capitalising
• dimpled
• Electronic Arts
• Young Men's Catholic Association
• VASI
• metazoas
• two-hander
• fascinator
• undercoatings
• shinglings
• blastocele
• apply force
• Zapotec
• esprit de L'escalier
• Black Prince
• office of Management and Budget
• zigzag reflections
• grind out an oath
• sphyraenidaes
• drampers
• nodulose
• night after night
• Minorca fowl
• shoulder piece
• Euler's phi-function