严肃

Mr Putin compared the West to a "strict uncle in a pith helmet" telling other people how to live.

普金将西方比喻为一个"戴着遮阳帽的严肃大叔"告诉别人应该如何生活。

There is a playfully serious song "Secret."

有一首调皮而严肃的歌曲叫做"秘密"。

Your watchfulness can also become serious, and that is a great problem: it should remain part of your playfulness...

你的警觉也可能变得严肃，那将是一个很大的问题：它应该保持为你嬉戏的一部分……嫉妒便无法存在。

Natasha quietly repeated her question, and her face and her whole manner, though she still kept hold of the corners of the pocket-handkerchief, was so serious, that the major left off smiling, and after a moment's pondering—as though asking himself how far it were possible—he gave her an affirmative answer.

娜塔莎平静地重说了一遍，虽然她的手依然牵着手绢角，但她的面庞，以及她全部举止都是严肃的，于是，少校收敛了笑容，先是考虑，像是同自己商量这样做的可能性，然后肯定地回答了她。

Stop taking life and conversations so seriously and learn to open up, and poke fun at yourself and others.

不要老是把生活和谈话搞得过于严肃和认真，试着敞开自己的心灵，在调侃你自己和别人的玩笑话中制造快乐。

La Pompadour, was rolled stiffly back from her forehead and coiled in a burnished rope on the top of her head.

那是一个凡事都严肃认真的年代，甚至恋人的情感和头脑都是有条理的。

And the way her light brown hair, which she wore a la Pompadour*, was rolled stiffly back from her forehead and coiled in a burnished rope on the top of her head.

那是一个凡事都严肃认真的年代，甚至恋人的情感和头脑都是有条理的。

We must laugh at our mistakes and at our fears, laugh at solemnity and pomposity, laugh at hypocrisy and vanity inourselves and in others; then we can see life in a true and healthy light.

我们必须笑自己的错误与恐惧，笑严肃与夸耀，笑我们自身与别人身上的虚伪与虚荣；然后我们才能用真实而健康的角度来看人生。

A book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness.

那本书非常严肃，以致有时显得沉闷。

For we are told by a grave Author 16 an eminent French physician, that Fish being a prolific Diet, there are more Children born in Roman Catholic Countries about nine Months after Lent, than at any other Season; therefore reckoning a Year after Lent, the Markets will be more glutted than usual, because the Number of Popish Infants, is at least three to one in this Kingdom; and therefore it will have one other Collateral advantage by lessening the Number of Papists among us.

一位严肃的作家——著名的法国内科医生告诉我们，由于鱼是促进生育的食物，在信仰罗马天主教国家里，出生在四旬斋后九个月后的孩子要比别的时节多。因此估计四旬节过后一年，市场上婴儿肉的供应将比平常充足，因为这个王国里天主教婴儿的数量至少是三比一。所以这个方案还有一个附带的好处，就是可以减少天主教婴儿的数量。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！