A boat, about, a dress, a coat: these are all simple iambic phrases that you hear in our language all the time.

一艘船，关于，一条裙子，一件外套：,这些都是简单的抑扬格的词组,你在我们的语言中会经常听到。

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Music is a language and it is made up of a syntax, and syntax, you know, consists of phrases and the order in which those phrases occur.

音乐也是一种语言,由句法构成,而句法,你们知道的,就是乐句组合,以及这些乐句的组合顺序

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