Yeats is throwing off his early work as if throwing off a kind of costume.

叶芝抛弃了他的早期作品,就像抛弃一件外套一样。

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The term is on the board and it's a good example of syncopation sort of jumping in ahead of time cutting off the beat, getting in there ahead of time and throwing off the metrical balance for a very short period of time.

这个词已经写在白板上,这是个非常典型的切分音的例子,它提前跳入,切分节奏,提前介入,并在非常短的时间里,打破拍子的平衡

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