Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.
他们的工作是严肃的，即使是那些轻描淡写地展示学识的评论家，比如乔治·伯纳德·肖和欧内斯特·纽曼，也让人放心地相信他们知道自己在写什么。
For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.
然而，要使社会流行现象发生，每个受到影响的人随后都必须去影响他们自己的熟人，而这些熟人又必须进一步影响他们自己的熟人，依此类推；而究竟有多少其他人关注这些受影响的人，与最初的影响力者关系不大。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。