I've already suggested that in a variety of ways this is a response that can be naive but it is still very much in the air.

我已经暗示过，在各种各样的方式里,这个是一种天真的响应，但是仍然有很多这种声音存在。

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It goes up, stays in the air for a very long time, but it falls on your head.

它先上升 在空中停留很长时间,但是它会直接落在头上

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That's the harmonic series that's on that, and what the valves do is they shorten and lengthen that vibrating column of air very much like the cello string on the fingerboard.

这就是圆号上的泛音列,活瓣的作用是增长或减短,空气柱的高度,很像大提琴指板上的弦

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