This is not as flippant as it may sound , but an important issue for business , technology and even geopolitics .

这个问题并没有表面上看起来那么轻率，而是一个重要的商业、技术甚至是地缘政治问题。

Mr cassano was even blunter , telling investors in august 2007 that " without being flippant " the company could not envisage a scenario that would " see us losing $ 1 in any of those transactions " .

卡萨诺更直言不讳，他在2007年8月告诉投资人说，“毫不轻率地说”，公司想不出“我们在所有那些交易中亏损1美元”的情形。

I don 't want to seem flippant when I talk about the sex .

我不想在谈论性的时候显得过于轻浮。

His flippant remarks only made the judge angrier .

他轻率的评论只是让法官更加愤怒。

In fact , says mr gudkov of levada , this self-mockery was not a reasoned rejection of the soviet system ; it was playful and flippant .

勒瓦达中心的古德科夫认为，实际上这种自我嘲讽并不是一种对苏联体系的理性否决，它带有戏谑轻浮的色彩。