At that time, PCs were very expensive and it was too dear to link one ' s computer to the web. What' s more, it was too slow. So few people knew what the Internet really meant.

在那个时代，不光电脑贵，电脑连接网络的费用更是可怕，更严重的是网速还超慢，所以很少有人知道网络到底意味着什么。

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because my instrument... I don't actually own an instrument, because it's really expensive.

因为我的乐器……其实我没有自己的乐器，因为真的很贵。

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