There's no need to take that tone with me—it's not my fault we're late.

不必那样跟我拿腔拿调的。我们来晚了，可不是我的错。

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All the sun really does is provide a camouflage that blends your skin tone with acne marks.

阳光能做到的只是将你的皮肤和痤疮印颜色调和的伪装而已。

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"Not at all," said Susan, stepping aside and trying to affect the woman's calm, bored tone with surprising success.

“没关系，”苏珊说，然后退到一边，想以此来影响这个女人那种镇定的、带着惊人成功的枯燥语调。

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Music critics say Jason Mraz sings with a pure and clear tone on the song "Make it Mine."

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As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

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These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

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Mr. Moore will respond in a manner that he wishes to set the tone with.

CNN: Is 'Dear' dead?

Lionel Messi set the tone with a run that sliced Arsenal apart in the opening seconds.

BBC: Arsenal 2-2 Barcelona

The NYU scientists first trained rats to associate a tone with a mild electric shock.

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