他笑容满面，仪态万方，又说了多少漂亮话。

He smiled, looked handsome, and said many pretty things.

在市政厅会议上，他不是单用一句漂亮话来唬弄选民；他让它们提穷根究底的问题。

At town-hall meetings, he does not fob voters off with a single sound-bite; he lets them ask follow-up questions.

那些漂亮话充满了你的头脑，但是当你合上书，转身去看你的床时，会发现它还是一如既往的冰冷、寂寞。

Pretty words to fill your head, and then you close the book and turn to look at your bed, and find it as cold and lonely as it was before.

对奥巴马的保守批评说他是吉米·卡特的回归：一个糊涂的理想主义者，认为能够用漂亮话让恶棍弃恶从善。

The conservative critique of Mr Obama is that he is Jimmy Carter redux: a woolly idealist who thinks he can sweet-talk bad guys into behaving.