And the temperature scale that turns out to be well-defined and ends up giving us the concept of an absolute zero is the ideal gas thermometer.

比如理想气体温标,它有精确的定义,并能引出绝对零度的概念,今天我们就先来谈谈它。

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Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.

无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子

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Melodies that are just running up and down a scale-- neighboring tones.

级进旋律是指在整个音阶的,相邻音符上跑动的旋律

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Yeah, remember we had-- he was coming up a minor scale.

好吧,记得我们曾经,他首先来了段小调音阶

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So, we end up here within an octave-- we end up with twelve equal pitches, but we still use this term a 'seven-note scale' because we have seven notes within the scale of the major scale and seven notes within the scale of the minor scale.

因此,我们在一个八度内,最终得到等量划分的十二个音高,但是我们始终称之为"七音音阶",因为在大调音阶上有七个音符,在小调音阶上也有七个

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