The thing about fables, if we are to take them seriously, is that they have to mean something and the characters have to add up to more than question marks.

所谓寓言，如果我们一定要转牛角尖的话，就是他们必须意指某种事物，而当中的人物带给观众的不能仅仅只是一个问号。

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Giving a potential employer something heavy to hold, for example, could make her take you more seriously.

比如，让一个潜在雇主拿些重物，可以让她更加重视你。

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Then something unprecedented happened: its leaders decided to take seriously the clauses in successive education acts saying that it should consider suppliers other than itself.

伹是难以预料的是，当地议会的领导认为人们应该更多地考虑由谁来建造这所学校而不是这所学校本身，并决定在接下来的教育法案中认真对待这一条款。

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"When the request came through for us to consider re-forming to play, we felt that the immense scale of what had happened in Victoria and the really necessary kind of giving from other quarters to help people meant that it was something we should take very,very seriously,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

It's also hard to take seriously the suggestion that something should be done to reduce the power of the whips.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

And as for a headline like "Let us march or we kill a Catholic a day" sectarian murder haunts Northern Ireland again, is that a, something you have to take seriously, a threat like that?

BBC: News Online

In constructing the sequester idea as a motivator for both sides to find a compromise, the administration proposed putting domestic cuts such as reduced spending for education, national parks and child nutrition into the package as the tool to force Democrats to take needed changes to Social Security and Medicare more seriously something I believe the President actually wants to accomplish.

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