The report says malaria could be eliminated if countries are serious about using proven control measures like insecticides and bed nets.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

However, if you do happen to be an English or a literature major or someone who's just very serious about reading at that level, you will find plenty to chew on here.

然而，如果你刚好主修英语或是文学,或是任何以主修的水平很认真阅读的人，你将会在这里发现很多值得咀嚼的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I think that if we don't address it, it has the potential to have very, very serious effects

我觉得如果我们不解决的话，可能有非常非常严重的后果

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The researchers have developed rules to predict if a head injury is serious enough for a scan.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

I had made him feel that if he whipped me for killing the kitten I would never gave serious way to his words again.

如果他因为我杀了小猫而打我的话,他会无从下台，我也不会再听他的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Usually, a person is clowning around if he is being funny when he should be serious.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

If you're a serious chess player, you might study some of the great games of chess history.

如果你是一名严谨的棋手,你可能还会研究国际象棋史上最伟大的棋局

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"This is because such failure, if it were allowed to occur, would have serious negative consequences for generations to come."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

The patriarchal stories are clearly not the work of the Deuteronomist, and these stories must have had very longstanding traditional authority if they were adopted without serious modification by the Deuteronomist redactor some modification, but not serious.

那些宗法故事显然不是预言师的作品，这些故事必然经过了传统权威的检验,如果他们是未经更改直接引用的话,由那些预言编写者,这里有一些改动，但不是太多。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Iran is trying to gain nuclear weapons. And if nothing serious, nothing dramatic will be done by the West,it will get there in a year or two,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Interestingly, she refuses to unfold for her audience the sage and serious doctrine of virginity, but she does anticipate what that doctrine of virginity would look like if she were to unfold it.

有趣的是，她拒绝向观众们,揭开智慧而严肃的童贞教义，但是她预想了如果她揭开,那么童贞的教义将会变成哪样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But these are things that can be minimized and lessened if Mexico and the United States work together, identify the most serious problems and try to fight them in very focused ways."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

For that matter, no serious harm done if we ask: Is there life after death?

就此而言,我们再问一个问题也没关系,死后能否继续活着

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"If we are serious about confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran, we have got to use all of the economic and diplomatic tools at our disposal to focus pressure on that country and its leadership to cause them to stop pursuing their plans to become a nuclear power,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But no matter where the conflict is or what it's about, if you're serious about peace, you can't take as final the first 'no,' the second 'no' or even the hundredth 'no.'" In her statement, Secretary Clinton promised an "unwavering" U.S.commitment to a two-state solution, based on 1967 lines with agreed land swaps, that will create an independent and viable Palestinian state and an Israel with secure and recognized borders.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25