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

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There might be a little more of Nietzsche suggested in that, than Machiavelli, but I think the Machiavellian overtones are very evident.

这之中也许有更多尼采的成份,而非马奇亚维利，但我认为马奇亚维利式的言外之意,是非常明显的。

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Usually, these get charted out into the so-called overtones, thirty-two partials or overtones, and you can see them playing out here .

通常,这些音就是图表上所谓的泛音,三十二个分音,或者叫泛音,在这张图中能清楚地看到

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Well, actually they all have the same overtones in a way, the same frequencies will sound, but you've got it--ninety-nine percent of it.

事实上,它们的泛音大体是相同的,频率听起来也一样,但你已经答对百分之九十九了

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