These days it's hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit.

近日，拿起任何一张报纸，打开任何电视新闻节目，你都能看到有关联邦预算赤字的严厉警告。

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Our parents, who were fast running out of things to do to keep us entertained, became less and less stern with their warnings if we disappeared from view for a whole day.

我们的父母很快就没有什么可以让我们玩的了，因此即使一整天见不到我们的影子，他们也不那么生气。

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With stern warnings, the army and police seemed to have little trouble bottling the protesters up.

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The arrests come after investigators in the Connecticut elementary school shooting issued stern warnings to potential copycats.

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Those stern warnings to heart patients not to take such pills they were probably just the exaggerations of executives afraid of lawsuits.

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