It happened just so, as sure as I'm sitting in these very tracks.

事情就是这样发生的，就像我现在坐在这里一样。

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I saw him yesterday, as it happens.; it so happened that I saw him yesterday.

碰巧我昨天看见了他。

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As it happened so many years ago, I don't remember the details.

因为年岁久远，当时的具体情况已记不清了。

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Okay. So what happened next was he then started to run that faster, twice as fast as it had been before, changing rate of harmonic pattern. Okay?

好的，比以前的快两倍，比以前的快两倍，改变了泛音的方式，改变了泛音的方式，对吧？

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And now, as with so many others, it has happened to him.

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So a little speculation from me as to why it has happened.

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