The police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.

警方正制订更严厉的措施打击犯罪活动。

She asked, looking sterner than ever.

她说，样子显得更加严厉了。

In private, though, the dialogue was sterner.

然而私底下的对话就严厉多了。

Sterner measures are surely in the offing.

更严厉的举措无疑箭在弦上。

The Don paused, his voice became sterner.

堂停顿了一下，他的声音变得更加严厉。

The new trial will provide a sterner test.

新的实验将进行更严谨的测试。

He went looking for Sterner to give him the good news.

他去找斯特恩列兵，告诉他这个好消息。

But it too has an atmosphere of older and sterner days.

然而，它也有着同样古旧、严厉的气息。

A report this week from the London Assembly takes a sterner line.

伦敦议会本周的一份报告却无情指出了消极的一面。

To deal with such a situation, sterner measures than these are called for.

对付这样一种局势，采取更为严厉的措施是必须的。

To deal with such a situation, sterner measures than these are called for.

对付这样一种局势，采取更为严厉的措施是值得的。

To deal with such a situation, sterner measures than these are called for.

这是一个不好的处境，但是他们成功地应付过去了。

But many of the planet's current pop stars are clearly made of sterner stuff.

不过显然这个星球上如今许多的流行明星都很坚强。

With China joining WTO, the green trade protectionism's influence is sterner.

随着我国加入WTO，绿色贸易壁垒的影响更为严峻。

"I agree," Sandberg said, retreating from the much sterner position she had taken moments ago.

“我同意，”桑德伯格说，从不久前还在坚持更为苛刻的立场上做出了让步。

It is now the turn of sheep, a sterner challenge because their legs have more weight to sustain.

目前的试验对象是羊，这是个更为严厉的挑战，因为羊的腿要承受更多的重量。

He's stuck with me through thick and thin for a lifetime, but I never put him to a sterner test.

在我们的一生中，无论遇到什么艰难险阻，他始终和我站在一起，不过我从来也没有比较苛刻地考验过他。

Sterner manhood's life, it takes something nicety from our hearts, may be it never comes again.

成熟男人的生活是严酷的，它会带走你心中某种美好，或许从此就一去不复返。

Should young parents be sterner towards their kids and leave immediately under these circumstances?

请问：在这种情形下，年轻的父母们是否得对孩子严厉写，赶紧离开？

But Rooney is expecting a sterner test next season and it is anticipated Sir Alex Ferguson will rebuild.

但鲁尼认为下赛季的考验会比较艰苦，弗格森爵士也会重建球队。

By that test, the West let down the Bahrainis: sterner talk from Mr Obama may have deterred their attackers.

在巴林事件这场考验中，虽然奥巴马的强硬声明也许阻止了轰炸机的炮轰，西方世界仍然让巴林人民颇为失望。

He's as young, 'said I;' but he has black hair and eyes, and looks sterner; and he is taller and bigger altogether.

“他也是那么年轻，”我说，“可是他有黑头发和黑眼睛，而且看上去比较严厉些，也高大一些。”

And Head Coach McClaren believes the result has set the squad up perfectly for a sterner test in Macedonia in midweek.

麦克阿伦认为这个结果是使得球队融合完美对于本周中在马其顿的严格检测。

Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

她的举止是由她母亲和嬷嬷的严厉管教强加给她的，但她的眼睛属于她自己。

Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere convention, that whoever crosses this street enters a more ancient and sterner world.

达尔曼常说那并非约定俗成，你穿过那条街道就进入一个比较古老踏实的世界。

We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood's sterner reign: Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth, with flying feet, and will never come again.

严峻的成年生活将我们驱使，我们变得日益刚强、更臻完美；可是依然感到某种甜美的东西，已随着青春飞逝，永不再返回。

We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood \ 's sterner reign: Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth, with flying feet, and will never come again.

严峻的成年生活将我们驱使，我们变得日益刚强、更臻完美；可是依然感到某种甜美的东西，已随着青春飞逝，永不再返回。

Others who came later were made of sterner stuff, prompting the famous comment perhaps apocryphally attributed to Winston Churchill: this was regulated English “up with which we will not put”.

之后的学者们要果断多了，他们总结出了著名的结论“规范的英语不应该以介词结尾”，随后这一论断却被杜撰成是温斯顿-丘吉尔的贡献。