不严肃

Still, it's almost as if, in a bizarre twist on the "Flying Dutchman" story, Wand has been cursed to re-record Bruckner's Ninth every two or three years throughout eternity, with BMG haplessly obligated to issue the discs.

他是个无比严肃、极度自我批判的音乐家，他懂得不存在&完美&的演绎这回事，他毫无保留地认为每一个新的录音都是在前一次录音基础上的进步。

Of course when you look at the pictures of her parents you feel sure that, with a father as stern-looking as that, you, too, would have been ＂seen and not heard＂.

当你看到她父母的旧照片时，你可以肯定，又一个那样满脸严肃地父亲，你也会&被看到而不是被听到&。

So either our knowledge ascriptions in everyday contexts are right, in which case we shouldn't take skepticism so seriously in conversational contexts in which skepticism is at issue; or else the skeptic is right, and thus our everyday practice of ascribing knowledge is under threat.

所以，或者我们的知识归属，在日常语境是对的，在这情况下我们不应该（在讨论怀疑论的会话语境中）把怀疑论视为严肃的。或者，怀疑论是对的，于是我们的归属知识的日常实践受到威胁。

She bore him a daughter and left him within a year, hinting that he had an immoral relationship with his halfsister Augusta.

三年里他出够了风头，然后，莫名其妙地和安·米尔班克结了婚，她是一个冷漠的、严肃的、有理智的妇女，对于他根本不合适，只是有很多钱。

Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals?

严肃的来说，谁会在经过一天漫长的工作后坐下来说，我今晚不会看《迷失》，我将打开计算机，制作一部以我的宠物为主角的电影？

Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals?

严肃地来说，谁会在经过一天漫长的工作后坐下来说，我今晚不会看《迷失》，我将打开计算机，制作一部以我的宠物为主角的电影？

So Mr Obama's underperformance is relative and partial; but it is serious, especially in domestic policy.

所以奥巴马的不佳表现是相对和部分的，但却是严肃的，特别在对内政策上。

Troy Nkrumah, the chairman of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, thinks it wonderful that Lil Wayne is speaking truth to power.

不过，假如要严肃认真对待小韦恩，那很有必要指出他所谓&九分之一&的数字是不准确的———惟有界定在20

Another example was Pope John XXIII, a serious man who found a lot to laugh about.

另一个例子是教皇约翰二十三世，一个严肃认真却不失幽默感的人。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷