Things like electricity, having electricity delivered to your home, so you had to have ways to generate electricity and to carry it from point to point and it was engineers that did that.

比如电,为了让电传输到千家万户,人们必须想办法发电,并将电从一个地方输送到另一个地方,是工程师做到了这些

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And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

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