2to put it mildlyspokenSAY/STATE used to say that you could use much stronger words to describe something 说得婉转些
Losing two members of staff was unfortunate, to put it mildly.
说得客气点,失去两名员工令人遗憾。
Examples from the Corpus
to put it mildly• He's a troubledyoungster, to put it mildly.• Unforthcoming, to put it mildly.• But the depth of the dislike of the Toryleadershipsurprised everybody, to put it mildly.• But the testimony from the High Street is mixed, to put it mildly.• Traveling in pairs out here saves a lot of walking -- to put it mildly.• Tucson audiences are passionate, to put it mildly.• After one hundred days of world peace, all surviving were to put it mildly, a little bothered and regretful.• Barkley, to put it mildly, is a bit more complicated.• On this view there is, to put it mildly, no urgency about a referendum.• The movie contains some scenes that are, to put it mildly, rather difficult to watch.