毫无疑问，一开始你会发现它的声音很沉闷，最大声的声音通常是鸟鸣声。

Without a doubt, you would find it dull at first the loudest sound is usually birdsong.

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人们讲话的声音越来越大，盖过了他的声音。

Voices rose in a crescendo and drowned him out.

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一个粗声粗气的声音说道，那声音听起来像把走调的吉他。

Said a rough voice, like a guitar out of tune.

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That's not good enough, and so the repetition in the plot reinforces the repetition of the sound in question.

由于她总是不能正确地发音,这样一来情节的重复，就加强了声音的重复。

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because we'd have different sleep times and then sometimes I would sleep loud and she... you know.

因为我们睡觉的时间不一样，有时候我睡觉的声音大，她就会……你懂得。

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there is almost a kind of metaphorical play between what he's describing and the sounds with which he is doing the describing.

这里有一个比喻,在他描述的东西和,他即将描述的声音。

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