Are they--Do they have the theme or the motive or does the piano have the theme or the motive?

它们演奏的部分是主题还是动机呢,或者,钢琴演奏的是主题还是动机

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Now let's contrast that with what happens in the second movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony where we have a lyrical, long, flowing theme. Okay?

现在我们拿它来对比下,贝多芬第五交响曲的第二乐章,这部分有长时间抒情的流畅主题,开始

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So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

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And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

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So that went on--If we heard the whole thing, it actually goes on for 32 notes as opposed to just four so motive versus longer theme.

我们继续探讨,如果听完这部分,这个主题接下来还有三十二个音符,与区区四个音符的动机相对,动机与篇幅更长的主题相对

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In other words, what--or the woodwinds-- what family of instruments is playing here and is Tchaikovsky using a motive or is he using a theme at the very beginning of this concerto?

或者是木管乐器,换句话说,这里演奏的是什么乐器,还有柴可夫斯基在这首协奏曲的开始部分,运用了动机还是主题

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