The Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Surin Pitsuwan, recently told VOA that Washington's willingness to talk with Burma, also known as Myanmar, is opening a "new ballgame" for the region.

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Well, if you look at the catalog of ships in Homer's Iliad, the island of Salamis had its ships lined up next to the island of Athens. Ballgame.

如果你看荷马伊利亚特的《船舶名录》这一卷,萨拉弥斯人把自己的船排列在了,雅典人的船旁边,就那么简单

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I mean, you're into the ballgame for an alphabet such as ours.

我是说,你进入了一个字母表的游戏中,这种字母表与我们的类似

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Here we go. Ready, sing, "Take me out to the ballgame.

预备,开始,带我出去看球赛

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Now, here's where the ballgame can really be determined.

现在,才是这场游戏真正的胜负手

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And we talked about this before--that classical music, probably eighty-five percent of it, does not involve a text, and that's a whole different ballgame because then you have to communicate meaning in a completely different sort of way.

我们之前也说过，古典音乐，大约百分之八十五，都没有歌词，所以这就让这两者产生了本质的区别,听众必须用完全不同的方法理解音乐的内涵。

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