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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He builds this big-- I call it a noble theme park, basically, at Versailles.

他在凡尔赛建了一个巨大,我称之为宏伟的主题公园

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Theme or motive at the beginning?

开始乐段用的是主题还是动机

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Now as metonymy, the delays we have been talking about, -- the paratactic structure of the way in which the story is told-- all of those, and the elements of repetition, are forms that we recognize as metonymic, but there's something beyond that at the level of theme.

作为转喻，我们之前说过的延后，在这个故事中表现为那种并列的结构-,都是重复的元素，我们把它们看做是转喻的，但是还有些东西在这个主题之上。

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And again, recall this is the theme raised at the beginning of Book II by Adeimantus, who puts forward an idea of self-control, or what he calls self-guardianship as his goal.

不要忘了这个主题是在,第，II册一开始时由，Adeimantus，所提出，他带进了自控的概念，或他称为作为个人目标的自我守护。

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