And some people with autism have extraordinary artistic abilities or mathematical abilities or musical abilities and these are amazing.

一些孤独症患者拥有超凡的艺术能力,数学能力,或是音乐能力,这非常神奇

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You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.

也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的

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That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

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He's making his own decision as you said and no woman is going to tell him to eat quiche or tofu and that you may have missed it but in the song there we'll show this later in class again but in the song they say that 'I won't eat quiche anymore' and 'goodbye to tofu' and things like that.

正如你所说,他是在做出自己的决定,没有女人会要求他们吃什锦蛋饼或是豆腐,你们可能没注意到但是背景音乐中有提及,等下我会再放一次,但背景乐中有'我再也不吃什锦蛋饼了',永别豆腐,之类的歌词

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Well, for instance, you could build machines that when babies suck on a pacifier they hear music or they hear language, and then you could look at how much they suck on the pacifier to determine what they like.

举例来说,你可以制造一个机器,每当婴儿吮吸奶嘴,他们就会听到音乐或是话语,然后你可通过观察婴儿有多喜欢吮吸奶嘴,来确定他们喜欢音乐还是话语

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And every musical culture around the world-- and I've talked with ethnomusicologists about this particular point-- every musical culture around the world, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Indian, African whatever, they all use this phenomenon of octave duplication in their music-- octave duplication in the music.

世界各地的每一种音乐文化,我曾经和一些民族音乐学家谈论过这一点,世界各地的每一种音乐文化,中国的,日本的,印尼的,印度的,或是非洲的,大家都有这种现象,即在自己的音乐里运用,这种重复八度

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