I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

The similes are for him instrument in the poem's larger agenda to reinforce our faith in the coexistence of free will and divine providence -- difficult, huge concepts.

这些比喻在这首诗更深的议程中是作为工具,来深化我们对自由意志和神圣天命的共存,所持的信念--这是两个艰深宏大的概念。

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So this is wonderful this sort of cross- semination of genres here, bringing this particular instrument, the traditional classical violin, into the popular realm.

所以这很好,这种不同音乐风格间的传播,把小提琴,这种传统乐器引入到流行音乐的领域

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Tests show the instrument, a flute,is at least thirty-five thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

We call an instrument of the U.S. Treasury with a maturity less than or equal to one year--we call that a bill and they used to be the only discount bonds issued by the U.S. Government.

我们把期限小于或等于一年的,国库券品种称为短期国库券,它们曾是美国政府,唯一发行的贴现债券

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Take care of this instrument, because your look,your face and everything you have - that is what you're constantly selling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

When an instrument--any instrument--the piano, plays a note what you hear is one fundamental pitch.

当任何乐器,比如钢琴,弹出一个音符时,你听到一个的是一个基本音高

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Now the instrument is--that is--playing is a low tuba, a low brass instrument.

现在在演奏的乐器,是低音号,一种低音铜管乐器

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It's a two-stringed instrument that produces a particularly beautiful, vibrant tone.

这是一种两弦乐器,能产生的特别优美,有穿透力的乐音

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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 the brass instrument is the--is a--trumpet.

那么铜管乐器是小号

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The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

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All right. So you probably read in the book that the bassoon is a double reed instrument, and so just to show you what that looks like-- You've probably seen it but if you haven't, two pieces of wood vibrate together when I blow through them.

好的,你们可能在书上看到过,巴松管是个双簧乐器,我将为你们演示双簧怎样演奏,你们可能见过,如果没有请看我演示,我吹奏时,两个木片会一起震动

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