他是一个锋芒不外露的人。

He is a man who always hides his light under a bushel.

他实际上通过隐藏锋芒来运用学识。

He uses it very often by concealing it, in fact.

理性提供的最有力武器只能挫其锋芒。

What reason can supply will only blunt their points.

3%的总失业率看上去还不错，因为公司都收敛锋芒、留住兵马，期待经济复苏的到来。

The overall unemployment rate of 8.3% looks better because companies are hunkering down and retaining staff in the hope of a recovery.

那些清新的话语，似一轮轻灵若月的温情，让长满荆棘的爱情在风雨的淋漓中脱去出岫的锋芒；

Those refreshing words, it seems that if a Brisk months of warmth, so overgrown with thorns of love in the rain dripping off the edge of the Chuxiu;