Its droll tone and tricksy style almost mask its heroine's solitude and tristesse.

它滑稽的语调和恶作剧的风格几乎掩盖了女主角的孤僻和忧郁。

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Climate change sceptics have seized on the combative, conspiratorial tone of some the correspondence as evidence of a plot among academics to mask the truth about global temperature changes.

气候变化怀疑者们怀疑学术家们阴谋掩盖地球温度变化的真相。 他们抓住了学术家们之间一些信函中有争论行.共谋性的语气，用它来作为证据。

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Think like a customer and write in a conversational tone - people crave a little humanity behind the corporate mask.

站在客户的角度上思考，以谈话的口吻写——人们都渴望公司面具后面的一点人性化。

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" For the Jameses (William, Henry, Alice and their father, Henry Sr.) or the Woolfs (Leonard, Virginia and endless relations), attacks on "tone in poetry and prose could be used as a way to mask other attacks.

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