But the situation denies many businesses the credit they need to operate, and further slows a struggling economy.

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And the experimenter is back there with the speed knob and at random intervals he just speeds up the tape of their heart and then slows it down.

实验者回到实验室，带着录音设备,随机地,他加速了心跳的录音,然后又慢下来。

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The tempo here is very slow and he slows it down even more and then it just sits out there, this huge wonderful voice that he had, on the leading tone.

速度非常缓慢,经他处理后就更慢了,余音缭绕,他在导音上展现了洪亮,精妙的歌喉

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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