When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage.

在表演时，他故意让自己的乐器摆出一种不方便的方位，使他在演唱中途从吉他切换到管风琴时需要在舞台上疯狂地奔跑。

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He has got a new craze, and it always takes him that way, in its first stage.

他又迷上了一种新时尚，而且一开始的时候总是把自己折腾成那样。

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In a strange way, my failures in the academic world had helped me achieve that goal on a bigger stage.

我在学术生涯中的失败，用一种古怪的方式，帮我在一个更大的舞台上，达到了这个目标。

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But I don't want to pre-empt in any way, President Karzai's statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this,".

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I'm going to go there initially, so I can move this over here, so I can get the base part of that over there, I want to put that one there before I put this over here, finally I get to the point where I can move the bottom one over now I've got to be really careful to make sure that I don't cover up the bottom one in the wrong way before I get to the stage where I wish they were posts and there you go.

我要先把其他的放到多余的柱子上，然后把最底下的放到目标柱子上，我要在把除了最底下的圆盘，其他的圆盘挪过来之前,把最下面的圆盘放在这儿,因此我得出了最下面的盘子,应该如何摆放的结论,当我没得到其他盘子的正确摆放位置的时候,要很小心的确认没把错误的盘子,放在最下面的盘子上面。

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It wasn't in any way an ordinary night before the stage, but in the context of things it was a way to get through the day.

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It was not in any way referring, at any stage in that speech, and I remember reading it very carefully, to any aspects of ethnicity.

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Siri seems to represent what some in the world of A.I say is the next stage in the way humans interact with computers, having started with keyboards, then a mouse, then a touch screen.

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