Many babies with Down syndrome have low muscle tone, so they need extra support when they are held.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Then,he began experimenting with what is called a twelve-tone system of composing.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

And then watch what happens to the prose style and the difference in tone: I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition.

然后看看那些散文风格,及语调发生的改变：,我发现要恰如其份地表现一刹那的那种颤栗，那种动了感情发现的碰撞，真是最为困难。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

With U.S.unemployment near double digits, Cardillo cautions the Obama administration to tone down its rhetoric against Wall Street - something political analysts say is unlikely with U.S.mid-term elections only months away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

A belief 'if you lose,I win.'" Republican Senator Bob Corker told VOA that the president's tone was cordial,but that the speech lacked specifics on ways to reach out to work with Republicans.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

As Mr. Obama made his international debut on the world stage, an unmistakable change in tone and attitude emerged about how the United States will deal with the rest of the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03