And he is playing with those numbers.

他也一直在和这些数字打交道。

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In other words, what--or the woodwinds-- what family of instruments is playing here and is Tchaikovsky using a motive or is he using a theme at the very beginning of this concerto?

或者是木管乐器,换句话说,这里演奏的是什么乐器,还有柴可夫斯基在这首协奏曲的开始部分,运用了动机还是主题

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So, the barber is speaking about his son in such a way that he seems alive, but, in fact, he's dead. So here is one dead child playing baseball, or the memory of him playing baseball is alive with his father.

这个老理发师在用一种谈论,活人的口吻谈论他的儿子，但实际上他已经死了，那么，这里是一个打篮球的孩子的死，也许对他父亲而言，关于他打篮球的记忆将长存。

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He's playing with Freudian slips. Of course, what he's thinking about all the time is the master-slave game, and so here it comes out, when he's talking about his brother's diving: "He's a master diver. You really have to slave away at it."

他在开Freudian滑倒的玩笑，当然，他一直想的是,主人-奴隶的游戏，当谈到他兄弟的潜水时，他提到了：,“他是个跳水能手，你真得埋头苦干拼命练习这个了“

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