And again, Americans all around the country took note of this quiet,serious man who did such effective work in so many different kinds of situations.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.

第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏，有几分严肃，第二个故事却充满了这些：,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。

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All of your friends wanna go see a play that's very serious.

你所有的朋友都想去看一出很严肃的正剧。

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"Well,we will do that over the course of the cross-examination, Mr.Taylor,but of all the people who have come before this court, you are the one facing these serious charges.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

And so you can imagine that even in its— with all of this activity on your skin, even at its most--least serious level, it's a terrible disease.

你可以想象这些,即使在,伴随着皮肤上的任何运动,即使是最轻微的活动,也会带来严重的问题

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"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

So, all right, so now we're getting serious.

现在考虑的问题很重要了。

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