严肃

Despite their protestation, they were still glad to

尽管他们严肃地表明了态度，但他们仍然乐

This film is not for the faint of heart or the prudish (an NC-17 rating for graphic sexual content).

这并不是一部削弱心志或过分严肃的电影(NC-17级针对性爱镜头)。

Psychological discussions on the street, in print, on TV and online are filled with psychobabble, usually delivered with a straight face.

大街上，刊物上，电视上和网络上讨论的关心理问题都提到心理呓语，常常都是很严肃的提出。

She came from a very serious, Puritan family.

她来自一个非常严肃的清教家庭。

Shen Congwen advocated serious societal objective and individual aim for art and this purposefulness about art was the manifestation of his instrumentality rationale of art.

沈从文对艺术有着严肃的社会目的与个人目的，这种艺术创造的目的性就是沈从文艺术工具理性的体现。

That is, perhaps, quibbling, but my main complaint about your question is more serious.

这可能是在诡辩，但对于你的问题，我的主要不满则更为严肃。

Seven-year-old Johnny thinks hard and looks at the TV quizmaster ."They are called the Mosquitoes," he says solemnly

七岁的小约翰使劲想了想，两眼看着电视智力竞赛节目主持人，严肃地说道："他们叫Mosquitoes。"

"Raffish art"copies in an exaggerated way the raffish and stupid phenomena in reality, taking off the decorative mask,becoming highly ironic.

"玩世写实主义"正视自己作为普通人的真实处境，以写实手法描绘"荒唐的"、"无意义的"、"平庸的"生活片断，或把本来"严肃的"、"有意义"的事物滑稽化。

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

幽默是唯一吸引力的试验，及幽默的吸引力；因为一个主题没有含有挖苦是可疑的，而笑话不含有严肃的考验是错误的才智。

A surviving list of books Hitler borrowed from the National Socialist Institute in Munich between 1919 and 1921 includes not only anti-Semitic diatribes but serious works from Montesquieu and Rousseau to Ranke and Spengler.

一份留存下来的记录从1919年到1921年间希特勒从慕尼黑的国家社会主义学院借出的书单不但包括那些反犹的谩骂书籍而且也有从孟德斯鸠和卢梭到兰克和斯宾格勒的严肃作品。

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！