"Take a seat," he said in a bored tone.

“坐下，”他以一种厌倦的口气说道。

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The Gryphon said in an impatient tone, "explanations take such a dreadful time."

鹰头怪不耐烦地说：“解释太费时间。”

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And pink noise, our son's favorite, sounds like the tone you'd hear were you to take up residence inside a conch shell.

粉色的噪音，是我们儿子的最爱，听起来像你听到的音调，你拿起一个海螺居住在里面。

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The kind of battle I've been describing to you, a nice flat field, two armies coming at each other, there's not much you can do in the way of trickery, and so you can take a high tone and say, anybody who fights any other way is a no good coward.

我向你们描述的这种战争,土地平坦开阔,两军对垒,没有多大机会使用奸计,所以你能大声地说,谁在战争中使奸就是胆小的懦夫

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Obama acknowledged to me that some advisers have lobbied her to take a sunnier tone, with little success.

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Rather than admit the obvious or even take a conciliatory tone, Goldman defended itself by accusing the attackers of being unfamiliar with how Wall Street does business.

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You may have spoken too quickly this time, but next time you will take a more measured tone.

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