在princeton review看到这样一道填空题

erencie

Her performance review noted that Jill suffers from a lack of ___, and often makes insulting remarks despite her best efforts to be polite; worse, the review went on to point out that it happens regularly, even though she  has no intention of ___ anyone.

blank (i) A, candor, B, tact, C, deference
blank (ii) D, exacerbating, E, touting, F, denigrating.

我选了CF.  可是答案是BF. 我觉得答案好像错了。deference means being humble and polite. 正好跟题符合。

大家的看法不知道怎样。

erencie

Thanks..

I think I roughly get the meaning. We can't say she's lack of politeness because she is trying to be polite. So a lack of tacts is more appropriate to explain her lack of common sense in terms of politeness.

上山帅

应该是缺少一种圆滑的处世态度

erencie

对啊，她not polite，不就是lack of deference吗？那为什么不是选C呢

lynnlin0902

我觉得还是选bf。因为Jill每次都想要be polite，但是却经常都做不到，反而很得罪人，而且是经常性的，虽然他不想。