比如，利物浦人往往会在字母“t”结尾的字上添加一个清音（气息音）“h”音，因而对“what”,“that”和“but”等单词赋予了他们特色的音调。

For example, Liverpudlians tend to add a breathy “h” sound to words that end with a “t”, lending their distinctive intonation to “what”, “that” and “but”.

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“我等你等了又等。”她继续说，说话的时候又突然恢复了从前的凄婉音调。

I waited and waited for you, 'she went on, her tones suddenly resuming their old fluty pathos.

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音乐是一种听觉语言，它运用到了音调、节奏、音色等三个基本要素。

Music is an aural language which USES three basic components: pitch, rhythm, and timbre or the quality of a sound.

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And the answer has to do with ratios and string sizes and lengths of pipe and things like that, but generally speaking, pitches that are right next to each other--very close to each other--are dissonant.

答案和比率以及弦乐器的尺寸和管乐器的长度等有关，但是总的说来，音调是相关联的，非常近。

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