I've probably lost my potential to be an outstanding cellist.

我可能已经失去了,成为一名出色的大提琴家的那种潜能

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I'm unlikely to become a concert cellist at this point.

现在我已经不大可能成为一个大提琴家了

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That's the harmonic series that's on that, and what the valves do is they shorten and lengthen that vibrating column of air very much like the cello string on the fingerboard.

这就是圆号上的泛音列,活瓣的作用是增长或减短,空气柱的高度,很像大提琴指板上的弦

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A cellist is always shortening and lengthening the strings.

大提琴演奏家总是在压缩或拉长弦

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String players are taught whether it's cellists going this way, downbeat or violas and violinists coming down this way that the downward motion of the hand or the pull across the strong pull across should come with the downbeat; that emphasizes the downbeat.

弦乐手们都是这样教出来的,是不是大提琴手这样的时候或者中提琴手,还有小提琴手们在这里这样拉,当手势冲下,很重的向下的手势时候,是重拍出现的时候,都是在强调重拍的

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It doesn't have every potential, it's a boy or a girl, it's not going to go back, but it has lots of potential in that eventually when it becomes an adult it could become a cellist, or a biologist, or an auto mechanic, or a biomedical engineer, all those potentials are still there.

但不是全部,比如性别已有定论,无法改变,但还是有很多潜能,当孩子长大,他可以成为大提琴家,生物学家,机械师或者生物医学工程师,他仍有所有的潜能

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