"The Hewlett-Packard news brings a better tone to the market, which has been in a kind of holding pattern," said one trader.

“惠普的消息带给一直处于停滞的市场一个较好的基调，”一位贸易商说道。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Those holding power as a main or sub tone will trigger the veils to be lifted upon all others that wish to manipulate a circumstance into being other than what it is, or put on pretenses of any kind.

那些拥有力量的主要或次要音调者，将触发揭开所有他人的面纱，面纱是希望将某个情形操控成与原本不同，或成为任何形式伪装的事物。

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The MPAA should have changed its standards long ago, taking into account the context and tone of a movie instead of holding fast to rigid checklists.

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We're holding out hope that the often overserious, dramatic tone of previous CoD games is being completely thrown out in favor of a goofy game about hunting ghosts.

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