You make it sound like a chore.

你把这件事说得像做家务似的。

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"This is going to make me sound like a really bad person," she began.

“这开始让我听起来像一个非常坏的人”，她开始说。

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Now, it is only natural that politicians are striving to make the post-free-stuff era sound like a happy opportunity rather than purgatory.

如今，政客们的任务自然是努力让这个后免费时代看起来更像是一个人人欢喜的际遇，而非残酷的地狱。

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The laugh is a lot like the "wow." It's that sound you make just because you're experiencing something, just because you're having a response to what's in front of you, something someone says.

这笑声很像“哇“这个字，是一种,因为正在经历某些事而发出的一种声音，作为你对面前发生的事或是，一些人说的话的反应。

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The news media jumped in, but of course their job is to make a mouse fart sound like it's a nuclear explosion.

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"We wanted to make it sound a bit like a Neil Young album, " says O'Brien, who recorded Becoming a Jackal with engineer and co-producer Tommy McLaughlin.

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Accounts of a VIP's life in an Indonesian jail anyway make it sound more like a four-star hotel chain than a chain-gang.

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