If they tried to notate it, again it would take all the spirit out all the heart out of the music.

如果有人试图去记录下来,那也就剥夺了这段音乐所有的神韵,取走了这曲子的灵魂

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Now how in the world would you ever notate that?

你怎么可能把刚才这段音乐,用符号记录下来呢

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Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

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