earnest

• Luther's protestantism is a grand theology, a sonorous earnest hardheaded christianity .
  路瑟的新教是一种宏伟的神学，一种恳切响亮、讲求实际的基督教。
• He perceived gazing upon him a pale and earnest countenance, which he was not slow to recognize .
  他瞧见一张苍白的，严肃的脸在望着他，他不难认出那是谁。
• Kennedy returned to the problem of how to convince the russians that the west was in earnest .
  肯尼迪重新提到如何使俄国人对西方的认真态度深信不疑的问题。
• I never can make that chap out, or tell whether he is in earnest or only chaffing .
  那家伙真叫我捉摸不透，他那些话，我不知道是当真的，还是不过跟我闹着玩的。
• I lack words to express the full extent, or the earnest abandon of his persuasion .
  我缺乏适当的言词来充分表达它的内容，或描述他说服我时的那种不顾一切的热情。
• Sam knew exactly what he meant, but he kept on a look of earnest and desperate simplicity .
  他说的是什么，山姆心里清清楚楚，可是他依然装出一副笨得简直不可救药的样子。
• Little previous ceremony is required to bring the matter to an issue when both parties are really in earnest .
  只要双方确有诚意，事先不需要什么繁文缛节就可能圆满解决。
• The three men, after a short preliminary explanation, now set about their preparation to move the ark in earnest .
  三个汉子经过短暂的商议后，急切地着手准备平底船的启航。
• In view of these above-mentioned circumstances, there seemed to be three lines of action deserving of earnest study .
  由上述情形观之，似乎有三条行动途径值得我们认真研究。
• She took the opportunity of his being earnest in talking with me, and got out of the room, and i never saw her more .
  她乘他专心同我谈话的机会，溜出房子，我以后再也看不见她了。