The tone of the letter was very friendly.

这封信的语气相当友好。

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The tone in his voice brooked no argument.

他的声音里透露着一种不容争辩的语调。

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The tone of his language was diplomatic and polite.

他说话的语调既圆滑又有礼貌。

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But Mr.Obama used the opportunity to comment on the tone of the national debate.

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And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

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We've been introduced to this idea of the tone poem.

我们了解过交响诗这类作品

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Dr. FRAZER: The tone was a government that was not acknowledging its own responsibility.

NPR: U.S. Officials Look for Political Solution to Darfur

The tone was set by the very first presidential TV debate: John Kennedy vs Richard Nixon in 1960.

BBC: Do the US presidential debates matter?

Several recent pieces of legislation have set the tone for appropriately dealing with risk.

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