sternly [
'stɚnlɪ]
ad. 严格地, 严肃地, 严厉地
sternly[ adv ]
with sternness; in a severe manner
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`No,' she said sternlypeered severely over her glasses
Sternly \Stern"ly\, adv.
In a stern manner.
- Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev ended summit talks on Sunday promising to work with President Bush toward a solution to Germany's military future but sternly warning Israel and independence-minded Lithuanians on other issues.
- 'You will NOT be switched to an operator,' the recording warns sternly. Nevertheless, there are steps you can take to avoid 'voice mail jail'.
- Best of all, Tsai Chin is the sternly stoical mother who still wears the scars of the arranged marriage she endured - and escaped - in childhood. This story produces the film's funniest single flashback moment: the first sighting of her groom.
- Tall and austere, the bearded Mr Scharping stands with his arms sternly folded across his chest, a fixed smile on his face.
- There are limits to medical hippiedom: Dr Stoppard tells her readers sternly that they 'should refrain from smoking marijuana before they decide to conceive'. Dr Stoppard is a great believer in 'bonding'.
- He also asked sternly why it took them six months to come up empty-handed.
- If I ever saw the mayor with drugs, he would be arrested." Judge Ricardo Urbina looked sternly down at Gilbert Spencer. "The stuff you gave to the man on the corner for your friend _ you knew that was cocaine?" he asked.
- When the Danes voted against Maastricht last week, the other 11 member governments sternly declared that there could be no question of renegotiating the treaty.
- In Henan, government-run companies will be screened by the end of August and anyone engaging in profiteering or blackmail will be sternly punished, Xinhua said.
- But Jesus sternly intervened, "Put your sword back in its place.
- Though he gave the interview after Beijing began treating artists more sternly following last year's pro-democracy student protests, Mr. Wu wasn't punished for speaking out.
- He adds sternly, "I don't see down the road where there's going to be any kind of cooperation" between the company and the union on wages and other important contract matters.
- The original force of the music was recaptured with authority. With Daniel Barenboim as a powerful soloist, the Bartok concerto began sternly and roughly.
- Ceausescu, who sternly ruled for 24 years and rejected the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe, spent Christmas a prisoner of his own army, awaiting trial for abuses of power.