"What is the matter?" said the man who had caused Miss Pross toscream; speaking in a vexed, abrupt voice (though in a low tone), and in English.

“怎么回事？”那位使普洛丝小姐尖叫的人说话简短，口气很烦恼，声音也很低，说的是英语。

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"That's all, young man," he said, his tone abrupt, official.

“这样吧，年轻人，”他语调粗鲁，还带着官腔。

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Nishino also points out that patients diagnosed with narcolepsy often don't experience abrupt loss in muscle tone until six months to a year after they began to experience daytime drowsiness.

Nishino 也指出诊断为昏睡症的患者常常开始感觉日间昏昏欲睡，直到6个月至一年后才出现突然的肌力丧失。

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Obama's solemn reflections at the memorial required an abrupt shift in tone by the president, whose morning in Dallas was filled with smiles, music and pageantry as he and the other four living presidents celebrated one of their own.

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