A motive is just a little cell, a germ, out of which the composer will build other musical material.

动机只是个微小的细胞,一个胚芽,基于它 作曲家会创造新的音乐素材

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So please take a look at the materials that were sent out: the Ancient Near Eastern collection and some of the questions to guide you through this material.

所以回去记得看我发的材料：,一些古近东时期的内容,和一些问题，它们将帮助你们理解这个材料。

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So we have this pulse, and it's just kind of out there streaming, but we don't like undifferentiated, disorganized material in the West.

我们拥有这种律动,而且就像泉水一样流淌出来,但在西方国家我们不喜欢,没有差别的,杂乱无章的素材

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There is in Frost no God, no transcendental source of guidance or consolation, nothing out there in the world but the material conditions of our circumstances.

在弗罗斯特的诗里，没有上帝，没有卓越的指引和安慰，这个世界里什么都没有,除了我们生活环境的物质条件。

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Syuzhet is the plot, the way in which a story is constructed, and the fabula is the subject matter or material out of which the syuzhet is made.

syuzhet“是情节，也就是故事的来龙去脉，而“fabula“则是主题方面，也就是,故事和内容是怎样呈现的。

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In the material that's usually associated with P Moses is depicted as stretching out his staff, first to divide the waters which stand like a wall so that the Israelites can cross over on dry land; and then he holds out his staff to bring the waters crashing down on the Egyptians.

在经常能和P材料联系起来的材料中,摩西需要满足他的追随者的要求,第一个便是，水像墙一样立在两旁以便于犹太人,可以从中通过，然后为了保住追随者的性命,他用水淹没了埃及士兵。

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