We are pulling our own strings and when the stimulus comes we can take control, change our response and hence change our life.

我们是自己的编剧，当面对各种条件时我们可以去控制，去改变我们的反应，从而去改变我们的生活。

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He looked at me over his shoulder and nodded a thank-you before bringing his song to life on the guitar. I watched Ray's fingers dance across the strings as if they were himself, running free.

他侧过身看着我，点头向我表示感谢，接着用吉他弹“活”了他的那首歌，我看着雷的手指在琴弦上跳动，仿佛那手指就是他自己，在自由地奔跑着。

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He obtains something he considers important now, but learns that borrowing comes with strings attached, which could save him from stupid decisions later in life.

如果他得到了自己认为非常重要的东西，而且也懂得了借钱是有条件的，这样或许能使他在日后免于做出愚蠢的决定。

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"D-Man in the Waters" (1989), an often frantically busy exercise performed in Ms. Prince's olive-drab costuming to Mendelssohn's effervescent Octet for Strings in E-Flat Major, began life as a showcase honoring a company dancer then ravaged by AIDS. It remains a thin, derivative work that looks back here and there in its diving-to-the-stage energy to Paul Taylor's masterly, heart-pumping, Bach-inspired 1975 "Esplanade, " as well as to Mark Morris's evocative and momentous 1981 "Gloria" (to Vivaldi).

WSJ: The Only Good Part Is the Music | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company | 'Play and Play: An Evening of movement and Music | Joyce Theater | By Robert Greskovic

Clips in Tadashi Nakamura's award-winning portrait "Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings, " airing on PBS Friday, document the transformation.

WSJ: His Ukelele Is On Fire | Jake Shimabukuro | Cultural Conversation by Matthew Gurewitsch