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Speak up! No hemming and hawing, please.
有话就说,别吞吞吐吐。
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Stop hemming and hawing! Tell us what’s your choice.
别总是哼哼哈哈的,你到底想要哪一个?
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No more of your humming and hawing; just tell me whether you have been there.
你倒是去过那儿没有,别吞吞吐吐。
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Don't stand humming and hawing, but speak out.
有话痛痛快快说出来,不要吞吞吐吐的。
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Yep, instead of hemming and hawing, just grab your tennis shoes and go for a run.
对,别磨磨唧唧的了,把运动鞋抓过来去跑步吧。
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But alas, I was never cool. I sat there hemming and hawing until every last molecule of oxygen had been sucked from the room.
不过我从来就没有酷过:我坐在那儿,说话吞吞吐吐,踌躇不定,只觉得大脑缺氧。