In other words, this was not meant to be a record to be left for the future. It was an accident.

换句话说,这些并不是刻意为将来,留下的记录,只是个意外而已

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You can go buy a score of the Beatles, for example--although they didn't design this initially with music, but after the fact,people sort of listen to it and make written-- put in written form what had originally been just an aurally conceived artistic statement.

你完全可以去，比如说买一些披头士的乐谱，但是他们当初写歌的时候并没有想用乐谱的形式传播，事实是人们听了他们的歌，再把它们写下来-,人们只是把一项为听觉设计的艺术品用笔记录下来。

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Here I'll initiate the memo to be 0, or to be empty, rather, the dictionary.

在这里我会将memo初始化为，或者为空，作为记录字典。

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