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And that's used in a lot of Far East cultures— the pentatonic scale, just a five-note scale there.

它大量用于远东的文化中,这种五声的音阶,五个音符的音阶

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What's the primary note called, the note around which all of the others-- all the others gravitate?

怎么称呼这个主要音符,这个被其它音符围绕,起到吸引作用的音符?

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It's in response to what seems to have been an aesthetic reaction to the poem that the printer of Paradise Lost asked Milton, went back to Milton and asked him to append a note to the book's second printing -- to append a note that explains why the poem rhymes not.

这是弥尔顿对《失乐园》的出版商的答复,出版商问弥尔顿关于此诗的美学问题，他找到弥尔顿，让他给此诗的第二次印刷附一个,注解--附个注解解释这诗为什么不押韵。

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It can't be ruled out but such a world I would note--let's just say a world administered by international courts of law by judges and judicial tribunals--would no longer be a political world.

这个可能不能被排除在外，但这样的世界,我注意到，这样一个受到,国际法法庭，法官及司法法庭管辖的世界,将不再是,一个政治的世界。

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So, that's another six- note scale but a different sort of pattern, a different kind of pattern.

那么,这是另一种六音符音阶,但是模式不同

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So, let's listen to Ravi Shankar play a bit of a raga using a six-note scale.

来听听拉维·香卡的,用六音符的音阶演奏的一小段拉格

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Because of the sort of particular character of the bassoon sound, it's often used to play sort of funny, little low-note characters in the orchestra.

由于巴松管的声音有这种特点,它总是用来表现幽默,在管弦乐队中演奏比较低沉部分

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So, two different forms of a six-note pattern, let's go to a five-note pattern.

两种不同模式的六音符音阶,我们来看下五音符的模式

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No. It's just playing one note--one note of a chord.

不，他们只演奏一个音符，每个和弦一个音符。

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You'll note -- and there's no reason you need to read more of this, but the Hughe edition only includes a small portion of the actual pamphlet So this treatise as a whole is Milton's defense of these six Presbyterian ministers who wrote a treatise criticizing the authoritarian structure of the English church.

你们会注意到，没有理由你们要读更多这些内容，但休斯版只选录了小册子的一部分,所以这个论文整体来说就是,弥尔顿对五个长老部长的辩护,回击一篇批判英国教会的独裁机构的论文。

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We're not going to get into that 'cause that takes us into heavy-duty music theory, but it's--if we don't have root position then we've got some other note of the triad in the bass, and we've got some kind of chord inversion, so that's what that particular term means up there.

我们就不深究这个问题了，这是一个冗长的音乐理论，但是如果没有了原位，三和弦的低音被另一个音所替代，这就是一种和弦转位，这就是这个词在这里的意思。

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