更严肃的谈话应该当面。较为不严肃的问题可以通过电话或电子邮件处理。

More serious conversations should be in person. Less serious issues can be handled via phone or email.

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我们可以说，事实上这一切并没有不严肃的地方，这是社会各成分间的冲突，将来有一天会达到平衡。

At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium.

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不管怎样，如果一个人不用心学的话，那外教的课很有可能被看成一种“娱乐”而且并不严肃的对待它。

However, if one is not careful, there is a danger that the foreign teachers' classes can be seen as 'entertainment' and not treated seriously.

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It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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This is wildly inappropriate, I think, in such a pious poem.

在这样一首严肃的诗中，这是很不合适的。

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When he laughed, was witty, in a merry humor, one could scarce sees his eyes, and by and by, when he was serious and positive, he opened his eyes round.

当他笑时，他是睿智的，带有令人愉快的幽默，都看不见他的眼睛了，不一会儿，他变得严肃和积极了，便圆睁着眼睛。

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