The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.

有人在远处唱着歌，几个音符隐约地传到她的耳边；数不清的麻雀在屋檐上啾啾地叫唤。

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Similarly, once you get a song started, you don't have to think about what comes next. You hear the first few notes of a song, and it just comes pouring out.

同样，一旦你开始唱歌，你并不需要考虑下一步，你听到歌曲开头的几个音符，接下来的演唱便一气呵成。

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And she's — and it's not the — and in fact, if you check the notes on the song, she's in fact, "the kind of girl you read about in new wave magazines."

而实际上，如果你去看歌曲的附注，实际上她是，“你在《新潮流》杂志中所读到的女孩”。

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And she's--and it's not the--and in fact, if you check the notes on the song, she's in fact, "The kind of girl you read about in new wave magazines."

而实际上,如果你去看歌曲的附注,实际上她是,"你在《新潮流》杂志中所读到的女孩"

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Contrary to a widely circulated rule of thumb, even using as few as four notes from another song can be an infringement.

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Turner also notes that the song makes an appearance in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which came to be embraced by abolitionist forces as an indictment of plantation life and slavery.

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You know how people who come from completely different cultures and backgrounds, people who might not even speak a single word of the same language, they might still be drawn together when their hearts are lifted by the notes of a song, or a vision on a canvas, or the graceful arc of a dance.

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