And he had been the candidate of a minor party in the presidential election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Occasionally, you get things written in triple meter and in a minor key--minor key.

偶尔,有一些是由三拍子,和小调组成

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Okay, that's a little bit of this ambiguity between major and minor in a piece of traditional Jewish music.

好了,大调和小调,在传统的犹太音乐中有些含糊的地方

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He accepted the award in a wheelchair after a minor operation became major ankle surgery.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

And so, that was a clear major for me to pick -- I actually also was considering English and ended up being a minor in English.

所以这是我的主要选择之一-,我还考虑学英语,最后英语是我辅修的专业。

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However,a minor accident and weather conditions forced a change in plans.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Also, the filing cabinet-- that sounds like a minor thing-- was invented in the 1890s.

还有档案橱柜-,听起来很微不足道-,是在19世纪九十年代发明的。

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During this time, Dean launched his singing career with Columbia Records and produced a string of minor hits in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

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In 2007,he suffered symptoms associated with a minor stroke.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Of course, it's in minor and the voices will come in, but the bass is going, sort of plodding along in a basic duple but with a triple subdivision underneath of that.

当然,它是小调的,人声将会进入,但低音是这样,按基本的二拍子缓慢地行进,但在那下面还用了一个三连音的节奏细分

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Peter's new fleet, we'll talk about his new fleet, which he oversaw and, in a very minor way, helped build himself, sails down the Don River in 1698 and takes the Turkish port of Azov, A-Z-O-V, on the Sea of Azov.

我们接下来讲讲彼得的新舰队,尽管影响不大,但他亲自监督,并且参与组建了这个舰队,舰队于1698年沿顿河顺流而下,直取土耳其的亚速港,在亚速海上

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And they got in this habit of, every time they had a bright, happy text, they'd set this in one kind of mode or key-- a major mode--and every time they had a sad one, they'd set it in minor.

于是人们养成了这样的习惯,每当人们书写欢乐,愉悦的歌词时,他们就设定一个调式或调性,即大调,每当人们书写忧伤的歌词时,他们就定为小调

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