Ambience was important in playing the Chinese zither. Usually, it was practised in quiet setting and never for public performance.

弹奏古筝的环境氛围是很重要的。通常，古筝适合在安静的环境中演奏，不适合公开表演。

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Be it rainy or windy, Zhang never stops playing basketball, and has achieved a huge improvement in his skills.

无论刮风下雨，张家城都不会停止打篮球，他的球技也有了巨大的进步。

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Peter explained that using the iPad filled all of his time. He was always working and playing on it. And he was never bored.

彼得解释道使用iPad占据了他全部时间，他不是用它来工作就是用它来玩耍，并且，从不会感到无聊。

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It all felt so stagnant, never changing, always the same idyllic sceneries over and over again playing out like the background to a Hanna Barbera cartoon.

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And he reminds me that we are playing a long game here, and that change is hard and change is slow, and it never happens all at once.

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