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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Point guard Stephon Marbury poured in 34 points and added seven assists, but more importantly, he set a tone with his ball movement.

尼克斯队的组织后卫马布里在与魔术队的比赛中得到了34分和7个助攻，但更为重要的是，他控制了比赛的节奏。

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Peter played a happy tone with his flute.

彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。

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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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