The salary and pension cuts, plus a two percent increase in sales tax are aimed at reducing the country's deficit by four percent this year.

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As you may know, there's yet another organization where we could group this in units of four but for all intents and purposes-- there are a few nuances to it-- four is simply a multiplication of two.

也许你知道的,还有另外一种组织方式,我们可以四拍一组,但是不论出于什么动机或者目的,这其中的区别甚微,四拍就是两拍的简单相乘

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They're irrational numbers and these irrational numbers like to move to rational numbers; they like to move to consonances; they like to move to intervals that are based on things such as two to one and three to two or maybe four to three.

它们是无理数,而这些无理数想要变为有理数,它们想变成和谐音,就要根据一些比率改变音程,比如二比一,三比二,或四比三的比率

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