With big, showy behavior, it's a lot easier for them to discount the issue versus if you brought it up in a serious tone.

用一种大幅度的、华而不实的行为，更容易让他们对这个问题打个折扣，反之，用一种严肃的语气可以让他们严肃对待。

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"They broke it up too soon," recalls Mully, his voice still taking on a somber tone nearly two decades later.

“他们过早的拆散了我们，”穆林回忆，二十年后他的语调依然忧郁。

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Crank up the power, and it can emit a warning tone so loud that anyone in its path would have no choice but to cover their ears and run.

加大功率，就能发出一种警告的音调，这种音调非常之大，在它的所及范围之内的任何人听到都只能捂起耳朵逃跑。

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Was this another "Etch-A-Sketch" moment, when Fehrnstrom suggested on CNN during the March primaries that the Romney campaign could change its tone and "shake it up and restart all over again" closer to the general election?

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Although Intel began talking about very thin notebooks earlier in the year, it stepped up the cadence and tone of its rhetoric this summer.

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To what extent do you think it has been caught up in the tone and the rough and tumble of the overall debt ceiling hassle?

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