After treasury secretary timothy f. geithner 's tax troubles and public speaking blunders , mr. orszag was one of several officials dispatched to the airwaves , where he presented the administration 's arguments with a combination of numerical analysis and boyish earnestness .
It wasn 't a perfect experience - the egg was slightly overcooked , the soup could have been hotter , the waitress handed over the bill before the food had even arrived - but the restaurant certainly gets points for earnestness .
If you see it as polished pop with earnestness , that 's fine , too .
就算你把这首歌当作是一首单纯而出色的流行歌曲也未尝不可。
Maybe it was just the earnestness of youth and living in a time when so many things were overdone .
或许这只不过是年轻人的热忱,又或许这只是因为我生活在一个许多事情都被夸大了的时代。
There is no particularly necessary link between earnestness and passion .
认真与热情之间没有必然联系。
But obama hopes that by displaying earnestness to change american practices , he can build an image of greater moral authority and that this in turn will produce diplomatic results that have hitherto eluded us .