我们想与音乐保持更紧密的联系，以便更多地了解音乐的本质；因此，我们可以在音乐风格、形式和表达方式上更加广泛自由地进行选择。

We want to make closer contact with music in order to learn more of its nature; thus we can range more broadly and freely in the areas of musical style, form, and expression.

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因此，所有这些都有助于在社区中形成一种从众的态度，你也可以明白为什么这种谦逊的、非常朴素的风格会在新英格兰农村地区被如此广泛地模仿。

So all these help to create an attitude of conformity in the community, and you can see why a modest, a very plain style would have become so widely imitated throughout rural New England.

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我们都知道广泛地阅读各种风格，类型的文字有助于提高你的写作水平，但是在你感兴趣的范围之外的阅读确实会很困难。

We all know that it is more beneficial to read a wide variety of styles and genres to help your writing grow, but it can be difficult to push yourself to pickup books outside your comfort zone.

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