" The old argument, " he said softly.

“老论调，”他轻声说。

On cost, the counterargument is that widespread job losses lead to deep recessions and thus sharp declines in government revenues.

在成本方面，相反的论调认模失业加剧经济衰退，从而导致政府收入幅下降。

We should be aware when our language regurgitates extremist rhetoric.

我们应该警惕，我们的语言是否在不假思索地照搬极端主义的论调。

She has criticised the shrill tone of the country's monetary-policy debate.

她曾批评德国货币政策辩论的尖锐论调。

This is not the only reason to question today's pessimistic narrative.

这并不是质疑当今悲观论调的唯一理由。

But there is a danger in this kind of talk.

但这种论调存在一定的危险性。

Her brother is infamous for his anti-alien sentiments.

她哥哥因他反对外星人的论调而声名狼藉。

His main point this week seemed to be that the sanctions he imagines to be " crippling" should be given time to work and that this was therefore not the moment for " bluster" .

这周他谈特谈应该再给一些时间，种种制裁才显出效果，使我们“限于困顿”。因此，现在就“图穷匕见”还不到时候。这似乎是他的主要论调。

At last a long article appeared, on the 7th of October, in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated the question from every point of view, and demonstrated the utter folly of the enterprise.

但是没有多久，这家报纸的论调似乎也消沉下去了。事实是这样的：10月7日英国皇家地理学的刊登载了一篇很长的论文，从各方面论证了八十天绕地球一周的问题。

The appeals court which upheld HB2 earlier this year acknowledged as much when it wrote that Texans who wanted an abortion could in future drive to New Mexico.

今年年初，支持HB2的上诉法院指出，想要堕胎的德州人未来可以开车到新墨西哥州进行，这样的论调也承认了法律限制堕胎的有限作。

The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful. After all, their faces said, were they not noodles to want to go?

这可怕的怀疑论调造成了令人不安的感觉，多数男孩脸上露出了迟疑之色。 他们的表情仿佛在说，竟然想离开这里，这不是太傻了吗？

BRUSSELS-BASHING is never out of season in Britain, but the past few weeks have been unusually strenuous.

唱衰布鲁塞尔的论调在英国永远不过时，然而过去几星期的局势却有些不同寻常的紧张。

Most work within business schools is blithely unconcerned with any expression of doubt, participants being too busy oiling the wheels to worry about where the engine is going.

多数商学院的事务都安然地不被任何怀疑的论调所关注，因当事人都忙于润滑齿轮，无暇关注引擎正在去向何方。

I'm a little bit of an amateur historian, so I've spent some time going back, trying to see the first mention of this kind of thing.

我或多或少是个业余历史学家，所以花了些时间去追溯前人对全球化程度的评估，看看是谁首次提出这种论调。

In fact, the wrong policies and tone do the reverse, as Vicky Fouka of StanfordUniversity found in a study of German-Americans living a century ago.

事实上，正如斯坦福学的维基·弗卡在对生活在一个世纪前的德裔美国人的研究中所发现的那样，错误的政策和论调适其反。

What's so shocking is the fact that it has just continued on the same tune. There really hasn't been a response or a mea culpa.

最让人震惊的是，这种论调仍在继续。政府没有回应，也没有承认过失。

A less consequential falsehood is that technology means children do not need to learn facts or learn from a teacher—instead they can just use Google.

另一种影响较小的错误论调声称，技术发展意味着儿童不再需要学知识或向教师学习——上Google搜一搜就可以了。

'Oh, dear, oh dear! 'cried the Rat. 'Just stop arguing, and dig! Or do you want to spend all night in the snow'?

噢，天哪！水鼠叫道，停止你那论调，赶快挖！难道你想在雪地里度过整个晚上？

This is some sort of strange denial, I don't know where it comes from, and it's something where I keep getting this question.

这是一种奇怪的反对意见，我不知道这种论调是从哪里来的，而且我被反复问到这个问题。

Its arguments are based largely on immigration, and the belief that Britain has handed control of its borders to a European super state.

他们的论调主要基于移民，认英国已经将其边界控制权交给了欧洲另一个超级强国。