Its droll tone and tricksy style almost mask its heroine's solitude and tristesse.
它滑稽的语调和恶作剧的风格几乎掩盖了女主角的孤僻和忧郁。
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Climate change sceptics have seized on the combative, conspiratorial tone of some the correspondence as evidence of a plot among academics to mask the truth about global temperature changes.