I do not much like to take the tone of a moralist.

我从来不大愿意以道德家的口吻来说话。

It can be serious, but it's usually jocular.

可以很严肃地说这话，但通常笑的口吻。

Notice that this is set up as a religious initiation into a mystery.

注意这种宗教的口吻正在引出神话。

He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.

他从来不说温情脉脉的话，更不用说讲话时常带着讥讽和嘲笑的口吻。

Yeah, they did. I replied in a hurt tone.

当然真的，我以伤心的口吻答道。

Again, it's a first-name basis, but this sounds more commanding.

再次，虽然叫的名字，但听起来有命令式的口吻。

Well, it was really interesting because it was not their usual tone.

这非常值注意，因为白宫并未使用惯常口吻。

“Not for long, ” said Hermione in a satisfied tone.

“不会太久了。”赫敏用满意的口吻说。

" Mr Linton will be sorry? " observed Kenneth, interrogatively.

“林惇先生一定会很难过吧？”肯尼兹带着询问的口吻说。

" We can't do much by ourselves, " said Ron in a defeated voice.

“我们自己做不了什么，”罗恩用一种心灰意冷的口吻说。

" Dragons! " she said, in a disgusted tone, pulling Harry inside.

“火龙！”她用一种厌恶的口吻说，一把将哈利拉了进去。

Survivors tell these stories with black humor, if only because others suffered worse.

幸存者用默的口吻讲述着这些故事，就因为其他人遭受的痛苦比他们还要严重。

The doctor part, then it circled around back to you.

以医生的口吻来写他对你的感觉。

And Flynn delivered this with sort of a typical dry British wit.

弗林用英国典型的冷峻又不失默的口吻发表了讲话。

Harry clapped loudly with the rest as Ron collapsed into the chair next to him. " Well done, Ron, excellent, " said Percy Weasley Pompously across Harry as " Zabini, Blaise, " was made a Slytherin.

当罗恩一下子瘫倒在哈利旁边的座位上时，哈利跟着其余的人大声鼓掌。“很好，罗恩，太好了! ”珀西韦斯莱越过哈利，用夸张的口吻说。这时剩下的最后一名布雷司沙比尼被分到斯莱特林了。

After you left I decided I really should put it in your words.

在你走后我决定我应该用你的口吻来写。

I don't speak to my partner at home in the same way in which I speak to head of department at work; and when I go into the classroom and teach, I speak in yet a different way.

我在家不会用工作时跟上司讲话的口吻跟我的拍档说话；我进教室教书的时候，讲话方式又不一样。

The fact was infinitely astonishing to him—and I recognized first the unusual quality of wonder and then the man—it was the late patron of Gatsby's library.

这个事实使他感到不胜惊奇。我先听出了那不平常的惊奇的口吻，然后认出了这个人——就早先光顾盖茨比图书室的那一位。

He held forth in turn, with dogmatic self-assurance, in the style of the proclamations daily pasted on the walls of the town, winding up with a specimen of stump oratory in which he reviled " that besotted fool of a Louis-Napoleon."

轮到他说话时，他用布道者的口吻和从每天贴在墙上的宣言中学来的慷慨激昂的词句讲着，最后他还发表了一段动人的演说词，气势汹汹地把那个“愚蠢的路易-拿破仑”训斥了一顿。

" We'll take this (editors never say I) , if you don't object to a few alterations. It's too long, but omitting the passages I've marked will make it just the right length, " he said, in a businesslike tone.

“我们准备接受这篇东西（编辑从来不说我），如果你不反对做一些改动的话。它太长了，不过删掉了我做了记号的那些段落，就能使它的篇幅正好合适了，”他以一种生意口吻说道。