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严重
Serious
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
我现在已经承担了一项严肃的任务，我害怕在给定的时间里，任何人都有能力完成一项更大的任务——但是现在已经太晚了，不能回去了。
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
但后来我得出的结论是，虽然可能存在移民问题，但这并不是一个真正严重的问题。真正严重的问题是同化。
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
嗯，我去年三月刚做了一次手术，手术很严重，现在正在康复。我的饮食很清淡。但我很幸运，我只是很幸运，仅此而已。
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
这里的语言问题真的很严重。我们想以某种方式谈谈原子的结构。但是我们不能用普通的语言来谈论原子。
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
不幸的是，白宫弱势青年问题特别工作组报告说，我们四分之一的年轻人面临着无法实现富有成效的成年的严重风险。
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
所以，让我们对自己诚实一点，不要把自己看得太严肃，永远不要因为别人每天做的事情而责备他，只是用不同的方式罢了。
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
严肃的作家不应与严肃的作家混为一谈。一个严肃的作家可能是一只鹰，一只秃鹰，甚至一只罂粟花，但一个严肃的作家总是一只血腥的猫头鹰。
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
当然，另一种更严肃的方式是，人们在诗歌和语言中发现了一些适合自己的特质，并希望复制。
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.
有一天，我终于决定，通过阅读当时的科幻杂志，我可以做得至少和其中一些人一样好。所以我最终做出了认真的努力。
I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.
我很想知道答案，但我不认为娱乐行业的人比园林绿化行业的人在政治上更严肃或更不严肃。
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。
One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
有一件事一直激励着我写作，那就是想把它拿出来，客观地看待它，这样它就不会因为呆在家里而给我带来任何严重的痛苦。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
从那以后，我每经过一个死人，总要停下来看看他的脸，他的脸已被死亡剥去了掩盖活人灵魂的世俗的古铜色。我会问，你是谁?你的家在哪里?现在谁在为你哀悼?
You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.
你知道，仅仅因为你是金发美女并不意味着你不能突然演严肃的角色。
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
当我第一次开始做喜剧表演时，我非常需要素材。所以我把我在舞台上知道的所有事情，包括杂耍、魔术、五弦琴和我的喜剧表演，都一一记下来。我总是觉得，当我在演喜剧时，观众们多少能容忍一些严肃的音乐部分。
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
我有太多的不可告人的秘密，根本不想去想任何有关公职的严肃话题。
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
任何事情都不值得做，除非后果可能很严重。
We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.
我们是世界上最伟大的国家，但我们面临着严重的问题。