serio
authoritative ; conscientious ; gross ; serious ; thoughtful ; earnest ; grave ; business-like ; solemn ; dire ; staid ; serious minded ; straight-faced ; no-nonsense.
Some authoritative texts on the subject are listed at the end of this chapter.
Then the conscientious manager can help solve his problems without engaging in original laborious research or the risky practice of trial and error.
She notes some gross inadequacies of these schemes in classifying African subjects, especially in the social sciences and humanities.
DC is certainly not regarded as the perfect classification scheme even in sectors where there is no serious alternative.
Production quotas, I believe, are antithetical to careful, thoughtful cataloging.
She spied Asadorian in earnest converse with McSpadden.
I believe that literature is certainly in one sense 'play' - grave and absorbed play.
It was generally felt that US libraries are organised on more business-like lines than those in the Netherlands.
The infants sat solemn as the Supreme Court pronounced judgment = The infants sat solemn as the Supreme Court pronounced judgment.
Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
As many of the responding librarians pointed out, 'staid, adult-looking pages are not attractive to a teenage audience' = As many of the responding librarians pointed out, 'staid, adult-looking pages are not attractive to a teenage audience'.
From his description one gets the impression that the inhabitants of Utopia are serious minded and that they read for instruction or for improving their own mind.
Satire and comedy can be better vehicles for social commentary than straight-faced, serious drama.
When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.
decir muy en serio
mean + business
Tagan is once again letting its competitors know that they mean business when it comes to external portable storage devices.
en serio
wholeheartedly [whole-heartedly]
for real
in earnest
I agree whole-heartedly that the subject approach is used chiefly by the beginner, whether it is a historical researcher or a high school student who is looking for term paper material.
As many people now know, text messages roaming around the grapevine such as 'the lady finally met her match' is for real.
The historical confusion over mission has usually revolved around these terms - sometimes playfully, but often in earnest.
en un serio aprieto
in dire straits
Egypt's Internet situation is in dire straits after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were accidentally severed yesterday.
en un serio apuro
in dire straits
Egypt's Internet situation is in dire straits after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were accidentally severed yesterday.
hablar muy en serio
mean + business
Tagan is once again letting its competitors know that they mean business when it comes to external portable storage devices.
humor serio
deadpan humour
Never sentimental, the movie has moments of droll, deadpan humor.
mantener la cara seria
keep + a straight face
The object of this game is to keep a straight face while the other players try to make you laugh.
mantenerse serio
keep + a straight face
The object of this game is to keep a straight face while the other players try to make you laugh.
medio en serio
half seriously
'The business is growing so fast that we've been having a hard time,' he said half laughingly, half seriously = "El negocio ha ido creciendo tan rápido que hemos estado pasando por momentos difíciles," dijo medio en broma, medio en serio.
mejor sería que + Subjuntivo
might + as well + Verbo
'Might as well face the music,' he said resignedly.
poco serio
flippant
I don't want to sound flippant or disrespectful, but I can't imagine us being able to defend or justify our present collection development policy.
ponerse a hacer Algo en serio
buckle down to
knuckle down to
get + the bit between + Posesivo + teeth
He later said that injury was 'the best thing that ever happened' to him because he finally buckled down to study.
They are there to study and knuckle down to academic work, not get drunk, be sick, miss lessons/lectures, and generally be a tax/soap dodger.
She has clearly got the bit between her teeth and has assembled the full force of celebrity support for the campaign.
ponerse a trabajar en serio
get on with + Posesivo + work
buckle down to
pull up + Posesivo + socks
pull + (a/Posesivo) finger out
knuckle down to
get + the bit between + Posesivo + teeth
A ward sister then arrived and gave them a telling off for not getting on with their work.
He later said that injury was 'the best thing that ever happened' to him because he finally buckled down to study.
So the Marxists will have to pull up their socks if they are to prevent the state from sliding back to the lawlessness one had seen prior to 1977.
This man isn't going to stop working, so those of you who can't work because of your 'disability' could do with pulling a finger out!.
They are there to study and knuckle down to academic work, not get drunk, be sick, miss lessons/lectures, and generally be a tax/soap dodger.
She has clearly got the bit between her teeth and has assembled the full force of celebrity support for the campaign.
cero tolerancia
zero tolerance
no-nonsense
The large number of complaints from staff and students concerning the use of mobile telephones in the libraries led to the introduction of a pilot zero tolerance scheme to ban their use.
When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.
serio en apariencia
deadpan
The story is told with a kind of deadpan surrealism.
serios, los [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
serious, the
A reappraisal is therefore outlined here in the hope that it will prompt the serious and the concerned in our ranks to think.
tomarse Algo en serio
take to + heart
I think we should all take to heart Lady Wootton's classic cutting of this Gordian knot, when she points out that social workers are not medicos, not psychologists, not sociologists, they are essentially experts in communication, performing a 'middleman' role.
tomarse Algo muy en serio
mean + business
Tagan is once again letting its competitors know that they mean business when it comes to external portable storage devices.
tomarse en serio
take + Nombre + seriously
get + serious
put + stock in
take + stock in
It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
It's time for governments such as the U.S. to get serious about reducing their carbon dioxide emissions.
He falls hopelessly for her and makes a difficult sacrifice in the hopes of winning her affection, but she's too nihilistic to put any stock in love.
But, luckily, we've ended up better off than we ever have been, probably because it caused us to take stock in what's really important.
