If I have to take exams, this is the stage when I would prepare in earnest for them.

如果我有必要参加考试，这个阶段是我会认真准备考试的时候。

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The work on the house will begin in earnest on Monday.

这栋房子的修建工作将在星期一正式开始。

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The race for the White House begins in earnest today.

为入主白宫而展开的竞选今天正式开始。

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He has that phrase, / "Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak / to the earnest love that laid the swale in rows.

他写了这样一句，任何超过真理的东西都显得很脆弱/,用最真挚的爱意割下一排排草。

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But the fact," he says in that next to last line, "is the sweetest dream" of labor, and it is earnest love that is doing this cutting.

但是事实“他在这篇的最后一行说，“是劳动者最甜美的梦“,而且在割草的时候反应的是这种最真挚的爱。

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In the earnest, irony-free spirit of TED, it did not seem like hyperbole.

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