We receive the electric signals from each tip, we tell which neuron is listening to, we get that color piece.

我们从每个电极端接收到电子信号，我们说明去听哪个神经元，这样就得到了一张彩色图片。

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Well, we have a particular recipe for instrumental timbre or instrumental color and it's the intensity of the overtones with -- or partials-- within each particular instrument that creates that.

我们乐器的音质,或者说音色,也有独有的配方,那就是每种乐器营造的,分音,或泛音的强度

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So when we hear any particular sound, again, we're hearing an amalgam of many sounds, and the importance of each of these partials in the aggregate of sound is what gives it its particular color.

那么,当我们听到某个声音的时候,其实听到的是很多声音的混合物,混合声音中的这些分音之所以重要,就是因为它们决定了自身特定的音色

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