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serious-minded

/seer-ee-uhs-mahyn-did/US // ˈsɪər i əsˈmaɪn dɪd //

认真的,认真,认真的人,严肃的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by seriousness of intention, purpose, thought, etc.; earnest.

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Examples

  • The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.

  • I like the idea of Jon Hamm… There have been discussions—though I'm not sure how serious they've been.

  • Whatever the reason, and however absurd their beliefs may seem, American evangelicals are deadly serious.

  • He said it was okay, that he had been busy too… busy fighting serious intestinal problems.

  • The “nature of the crime” was too serious to release him, they said.

  • Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.

  • It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

  • Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.

  • They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.

  • Never then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.