1·Put the other way, the sentence becomes stiff, needlessly formal. A matter of ear.
相反，不这样做的话句子就会变得僵硬——还是耳朵的问题。
2·On June 20th Takafumi Horie, a young internet entrepreneur, was led away to serve a stiff prison sentence for accounting fraud.
在6月20日，年轻的互联网企业家堀江贵文，因犯有财务欺诈的罪名而获得量刑很重的判罚。