That original Kindle, code-named "Fiona" after a character in Neal Stephenson's futuristic novel The Diamond Age, was finally ready to go in the fall of 2007.

最初的 Kindle 以尼尔·斯蒂芬森的科幻小说《钻石时代》中的一个人物命名，代号为“菲奥娜”，终于准备在2007年秋季上市。

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Psychologists have long held that a person's character cannot undergo a transformation in any meaningful way and that the key traits of personality are determined at a very young age.

心理学家长期以来一直认为，一个人的性格不可能以任何有意义的方式发生转变，性格的关键特征在很小的时候就已经决定了。

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Because I was still so close to the character in age and everything else.

因为当时我和角色的年龄等各方面都比较相近。

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Or even use algorithms to modify vocal features to convey emotion or age a character.

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Naturally, not too many actors are the same age of the character he or she is playing.

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Twentieth-century orchestral composers certainly followed suit, but despite all the interesting, intricate, and even intimate music that's been written for trumpet over the last century and a half, the trumpet has never lost its age-old character as a signaling instrument, an instrument that can call people to attention in a powerful and dramatic way.

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