严肃：很多幽默都来自日常生活中的很严肃的事件和情景。

Serious: Much humor derives from very serious events and situations in our daily lives.

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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。

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.

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他的电影多采多姿，娱乐性丰富；不会采严肃态度看待严肃事情，因为，最终，这些事情是永远不会出现的。

He films in a colorful, leisurely style; not taking even the most serious things too very seriously, because, after all, they need never have happened.

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So as a very "grave author" - and this is what Chudleigh is implying -- Milton can tell us something potentially true about the priority of the sexes.

因此作为一个“严肃的作家“,-这是恰德莱暗示的--弥尔顿能告诉我们,关于性别优先地位的一些真相。

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