Music critics say Jason Mraz sings with a pure and clear tone on the song "Make it Mine."

VOA: special.2010.01.29

The wonder of Frost is really in his tone, his way of saying things without saying them in so many words.

弗罗斯特的疑问存在于他的语调，他用极少的词语来叙述。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But remember, depending on your tone of voice and the circumstances.

但记住，这个句型的意义取决于你说话的语气和所处的环境。

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Many babies with Down syndrome have low muscle tone, so they need extra support when they are held.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

There seems to be something like a gentle parody maybe even a mocking tone that fills the lines of the Elder Brother's ecstatic speech.

似乎有些东西如文雅诙谐的改编作品甚至是嘲弄的语气,体现在大哥入神的讲话中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He was 16. John went to Judge Tone, the richest man in town, to collect a dollar for some corn the Judge Tone bought from John's father.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Yeah. Absolutely. A lot of emphasis, a lot of variation in tone, and the italics are part of the representation of that.

对，绝对是的，很多的强调，很多语气上的变化，而斜体字就是它的表示方法之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Then,he began experimenting with what is called a twelve-tone system of composing.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

My cell phone rings and because one has the capacity nowadays to select your own ring tone--right?

我的手机响了,因为现在每个人都可以,选择你自己的铃声,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

John went to see Judge Tone, explained what he wanted to do.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Is he sincere in saying this, in making this point or his he somehow being ironical in his use of the religious tone ? or the religious register?

他说那些话时，是否诚恳地反应其论点,或他只是故做讽刺,才使用那些宗教论调,或是宗教语言？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Then Judge Tone said: " Everybody has to learn things.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

All right. Now as you read Iser you'll see immediately that in tone, in his sense of what's important, and in his understanding of the way in which we negotiate the world of texts he much more closely resembles Gadamer than Hirsch.

你们在读伊瑟尔时，立马可以感觉到,在他的语气，对重点的把握中,以及他对我们读懂文章的方法上的理解,他更像葛达玛，而不是赫施。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

" It is a long tone poem for orchestra.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In October,Judge Tone sent for him.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

The elegiac tone of this final section of the poem should give us some clues to the type of victory over paganism that Christ's birth is actually heralding here.

诗歌最后一部分采用挽歌的口吻意在,告诉我们打败异教后的成功,预示着基督即将诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Judge Tone gave him the dollar.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

They also, because the system worked out better for their purposes, then jumped to nine to eight, which gave them the whole tone.

另外,由于这个体系比预想的还好用,于是他们转而采用九比八的比例,从而得到了全音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But Enzi adopted a negative tone when he gave the Republican response to one of President Obama's recent weekly radio addresses.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

And then watch what happens to the prose style and the difference in tone: I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition.

然后看看那些散文风格,及语调发生的改变：,我发现要恰如其份地表现一刹那的那种颤栗，那种动了感情发现的碰撞，真是最为困难。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A senior State department official who spoke to reporters Monday said the sharp tone of the Iranian leader's comments was not a surprise.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Okay. So this is a leading tone going in to that particular note.

好吧,这是一个引出那个特定音符的导音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So she has always been a warrior. It is just in a different tone for this film.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In response, Ethiopia's foreign ministry called the ICG report 'malicious propaganda' that contains extremely serious errors and takes an entirely negative tone toward government policies'.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But Mr.Obama used the opportunity to comment on the tone of the national debate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Then there's one other that we have to know about, it's called the leading tone.

还有一个音符我们需要了解,我们称之为导音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选