伽利略并没有发明望远镜，但在1609年听到有人制造了这种光学仪器后，他很快用管风琴管和眼镜镜片制造了自己的望远镜。
Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.
用文字将音乐描述得生动立体不是件容易事，但西卜林却做到了，比如他将巴赫的某个音乐段落描述成“萦绕在长条管风琴管和琴弦周围的被珍珠外壳包裹着的令人后背发抖的旋律”。
To vivify music in words is not easy. But Mr Siblin, who memorably describes one Bach passage as a “spine-shivering, jewel-encrusted melody on a swath of organ and strings”, rises to the task.
用文字将音乐描述得生动立体不是件容易事，但西卜林却做到了，比如他将巴赫的某个音乐段落描述成“萦绕在长条管风琴管和琴弦周围的被珍珠外壳包裹着的令人后背发抖的旋律”。
To vivify music in words is not easy. But Mr Siblin, who memorably describes one Bach passage as a "spine-shivering, jewel-encrusted melody on a swath of organ and strings", rises to the task.
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