And we will report on the recovery of what archeologists are calling the oldest musical instrument ever found.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

It doesn't sound much like a tuba because it's actually playing in the higher register of the instrument, but it is a tuba.

它听起来不太像是低音号,因为它一般,会在更高音域演奏,但它确实是低音号

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And he is a violist, not a violinist, but the principle here is pretty much the same, so tell us about the construction of the instrument.

他是位中提琴手,不是小提琴手,但提琴的原理都很相近,跟我们讲解下乐器的结构吧

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.18

not that things are but what things are using the instrument of language?

不是指一般时候事情是怎样的，而是说,运用语言工具时事情是怎样的？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.06.18

And not just a camera but there are also tools on the end of these things so you can cut and you can do manipulations through this instrument.

除了摄像头外,在关节镜的末端还有其他的器械,你可以体外操纵这些器械进行切割等操作

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He says he dreamed of placing just such an instrument on the National Mall.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

For those of you don't know what that is it's simply an instrument that counts radioactive particles in the air, and MIT now that you're at MIT, you'll all have a chance to see one first hand if you're ever in any of the labs, especially in the chemistry or bio labs.

不知道它是什么,它就是一个简单的,计算在空气中放射粒子数目的仪器,你们现在来了，如果你们在实验室里工作的话,尤其是化学和生物实验室，你们有很多机会亲手用到它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Scientists can predict how this instrument might have sounded by studying a copy of a smaller bird bone flute found several years ago in the same area.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The Greeks did it by the playing of a flute like or oboe like instrument that played a military tune that had you marching forward at the right pace.

希腊人通过类似长笛,或双簧管的乐器发出指令,使之能以正确的步调前进

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And God simply made me the instrument of his punishment."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

While some have defended the instrument as part of the South Africa World Cup experience, criticism has been almost as loud as the vuvuzela itself.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Willie,now 74, who wrote most of the tunes on Joined At The Hip, returns to his first instrument, the harmonica, while Willie shines on vocals and piano.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Scholars have always been quick to point out that in both cases, This ark, this tevah, is in the words of one scholar "The instrument of salvation through perilous waters" waters that threaten to capsize it, and so blot out God's hopes and plans for his creatures.

学者们总是很快指出在这两个地方，这个方舟，tevah用一位学者的话说就是,“从恶水中获救的工具“,那些要倾覆它的水流，这也体现了上帝的希望和给创造物的安排。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Gibson Guitar Company debuted its first Les Paul model in 1952, which later became the instrument of choice for rock musicians such as Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

All of the sounds are produced by the strings on the instrument and how the bow is pulled across the instrument.

所有声音都是靠乐器上的弦产生的,琴弓在乐器上来回滑动发声

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Philip Peters, Vice President of Lexington Institute, a private research orgnization based in Virginia, disagrees with members of Congress who assert that ending TV Marti broadcasts would strengthen the Castro regime in Cuba: "I don't know how we have gotten ourselves in the position where this particular instrument of public diplomacy is a test of everyone's manhood with regard to Communism in Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

It's quite spectacular because here in the 1890s we have the apex of the Western classical orchestra, this big, beautiful, powerful instrument.

它之所以雄壮因为在十九世纪九十年代,西方古典管风琴正处于顶峰,这是一种巨大,美丽,有力量的乐器

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The horn obviously is a brass instrument and what makes the sound is a vibrating column of air.

显而易见的,圆号是个铜管乐器,它通过震动空气柱来发出声音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Physicians over the years of having this instrument have learned how to be very sophisticated about looking at these pictures and diagnosing when something is wrong inside the chest, for example.

这些年来,使用这类设备的医生,已经熟练地掌握了,通过看这些X光片,来诊断,胸部疾病的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Then a brass instrument enters and what is the name of this brass instrument?

然后一个铜管乐器出现了,那么这个铜管乐器是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They play with these partials on each of these notes, but this is just one sound with all of these other things mixed in to the medley that produces the quality or timbre of a particular instrument.

它们改变音符中的分音的强度,不过这只是一个声音,要算上其它所有分音的集合,才能构成一个特定乐器的音色

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