Except in very cold weather, water shoots from a circle of fountains in the middle.

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I can't know it except by the way in which it differs from everything that surrounds it.

我认识这个词是因为,它和其他词都不一样。

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The brain perceives all of this complex information and it processes it and it extrapolates from it the beat, but again nobody in music-- except the bass drum player in a marching band-- nobody in music ever does anything except just play the beat.

我们的大脑感知了所有复杂的信息加工后,推算出了拍子,不过没有人,除了军乐队的低音鼓手,没有人在音乐里仅仅只是打鼓点

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