During this time, Dean launched his singing career with Columbia Records and produced a string of minor hits in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

So, we're used to making associations with major and minor.

我们习惯于对大调和小调进行联想

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

These are some minor characters who lived with them and went to Columbia with them, or were in their circle when these writers lived in the neighborhoods ] in New York around Columbia University.] So, Allen Ginsberg is Carlo Marx, and Ginsberg went to Columbia.

这些是和他们住在一起的次要人物,和他们一起去了哥伦比亚的，或者当作者住在,纽约哥大附近的那个小区时,是他们圈子里的人],因此，艾伦金斯堡就是卡洛马克思，金斯堡去了哥大。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Soccer City is also nearing completion with only minor fixtures and the parking lot pavement remaining to be completed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

With this one, sometimes major and sometimes minor.

这一个,有时是大调而有时是小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In 2007,he suffered symptoms associated with a minor stroke.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Jean in Bordeaux, to the train station, to be shipped off to the east; but, he did very well, he became a minor Gaullist official, and he did very well, and they finally caught up with him.

到了车站,然后再被海运到东方,但是他干得很好,他成了一个戴高乐派的小官,他干的也很好,最后他们终于逮着他了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Well, Phil's a minor league baseball player, and he travels a lot, and my mom stayed home with me,but I knew it made her unhappy, so I figured I'd stay with my dad for a while.

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