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.

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。

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"They broke it up too soon," recalls Mully, his voice still taking on a somber tone nearly two decades later.

“他们过早的拆散了我们，”穆林回忆，二十年后他的语调依然忧郁。

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We called a line with a test tone and started covering up the phone (note, we cannot be sure this line is toll free, but we risked it).

我们用测试语气拨打了一个号码然后开始覆盖住手机(PS：我们不确定那个电话是免费的，但是我们还是冒险了)。

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Was this another "Etch-A-Sketch" moment, when Fehrnstrom suggested on CNN during the March primaries that the Romney campaign could change its tone and "shake it up and restart all over again" closer to the general election?

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Although Intel began talking about very thin notebooks earlier in the year, it stepped up the cadence and tone of its rhetoric this summer.

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To what extent do you think it has been caught up in the tone and the rough and tumble of the overall debt ceiling hassle?

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