If you put in other little strands of melody, it changes it more toward polyphonic texture.

如果将之放到其他的小旋律中，将会改变对位材质。

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Without those other things running around we would have a good sort of model of homophonic texture, sort of block chords changing in that fashion.

如果没有这个其他东西单独进行我们将会获得一种不错的同音材质，一种阻断的和弦在改变。

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These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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Because you trust biomedical engineers to have done a good job in designing these things and we'll talk about how biomaterials are designed and tested, and what makes a material, the properties of a material that you could use as a contact lens, what are the properties that it needs to have.

因为你深信生物医学工程师们,在设计这些材料时,已经做了充分的工作,我们会讨论如何设计和测试这些生物材料,什么材质具有,能够用来,做成隐形眼镜的材料的属性,它们需要具备的特性究竟是什么

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