I don't know. That petition looked real to me.

我也不知道 他还递了申请呢 我看他挺认真的。

Seriously, have you picked your nose today? -Okay..

认真的问题，你今天挖过鼻孔吗？- 嗯，好吧。

2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students, fresh from an excursion to Europe. " How was it" ? I asked, full of earnest anticipation.

我觉得我是在最近偶遇我以前的一位学生时，才开始对这个问题认真起来的。这个学生刚从欧洲旅游回来。我满怀着诚挚期待问她：" 欧洲之行如何？"

Food for Thought. It means to think carefully about something.

引深思。这个短语表示认真的思索某事。

Irony? my dear, I was perfectly in earnest.

冷嘲讽？亲爱的，我可是相当认真的。

For real. Matt, as you probably know, could have starred in " Manchester By The Sea" , he was the producer, It's nominated for six Oscars including Lead Actor.

我是认真的。你们可能知道，马，本可以出演《海边的曼彻斯》。他是，获得六项提名，包括主演。

Members of the clergy are serious students of religion.

牧师是宗教中最认真的学生。

Conscientious bosses, by contrast, score highly for integrity.

相比之下，勤勉认真的老板在为正直方面得分很高。

She's a really conscientious person, I love her work.

她是一个非常认真的，我喜欢她的工作。

Later on, it was sometimes hard to tell whether he was larking round or serious: as a narcoleptic, he would often lull journalists into a snooze and then snap to, razor-sharp, with the answer to their questions.

到了后来，有时很难区分他是随便玩玩还是认真的：他经常像一个嗜眠患者那样把记者也搞得昏昏欲睡，然后又突然清醒犀利地回答他们的问题。

Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.

有时候他很认真的仔细听她述说生意中的各项细节，点头称赞她办事有头脑，有时候他就把她那些不是很正当的做法叫做捡便宜，叫做投机取巧。

Serious questions have been asked about the president's security after a young man in camouflage gear pushed through a crowd and fired several plastic pellets at him at close range.

一名身穿防护装置的年轻男子从群中冲出来，对总统近距离发射几颗塑料球，这使们认真质疑总统的安全问题。

Again the point is to listen hard while keeping the pen moving.

关键在于要很认真的听讲，然后笔下不停。

I mean it, I say that as someone who has heard that word a lot.

我是认真的，作为一个听过这个词很多次的，我会这么说。

I really do mean it this time.

这次我是认真的。

" I am quite ready, " answered the Emperor. " Do my new clothes fit well? " asked he, turning himself round again before the looking glass, in order that he might appear to be examining his handsome suit.

“我已经穿戴好了。”皇帝说，“这衣服合我的身吗？”于是他又在镜子前转了转，为了让大家看出他在认真检查他美丽的服装。

He must house his love within himself as best he can; he must create for himself a whole new inward world — a world intense and strange, complete in himself.

他必须尽可能深地把他的爱情禁锢在心中；他必须为自己创造一个全然是新的内心世界——一个认真的、奇异的、完全为他单独拥有的世界。

They haven't even slept together yet, I mean, that's not serious.

床都没上过，就是，根本不是认真的。

But that only works if each of us takes it seriously.

但这只有在我们每个 都认真执行的情况下才会产生效果。

Not while you're building it, not when you put it on your shelf, not when it gets a little too much sunlight on your windowsill, and not—and I mean this—when you accidentally put it in the oven.

在搭建时不会散架，放在架子上的时候也不会，放在窗台上被阳光照射很久也不会散架，还有，我是认真的，就算你不小心把它放进烤箱，它也不会散架。