They were the bass note in the triumvirate of receptacles which awaited visitors in every conference room: spittoons, porcelain-lidded tea cups, and ashtrays.

当时每个会议室必备的迎宾三件套就是：痰盂、带盖的茶杯和烟灰缸。

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Changes in the bass or lowest note of a chord affect its nature, but higher notes may be displaced without affecting the nature of the original chord.

和弦中低音或最低音的改变影响其性质，但是替换稍高的音则不会影响原和弦的性质。

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You can sometimes hear it if you listen carefully to a recording of a bass solo, where each note is accompanied by a "PFFT" sound that disappears between the notes.

仔细聆听男低音歌手独唱的录音，你会间或听到这种噪音：每个音符都伴有一个杂音“啐”，并且这个杂音只在两个音符之间闪现。

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We're not going to get into that 'cause that takes us into heavy-duty music theory, but it's--if we don't have root position then we've got some other note of the triad in the bass, and we've got some kind of chord inversion, so that's what that particular term means up there.

我们就不深究这个问题了，这是一个冗长的音乐理论，但是如果没有了原位，三和弦的低音被另一个音所替代，这就是一种和弦转位，这就是这个词在这里的意思。

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Songs and videos play back with a moderate amount of bass, though audiophiles will note that sound could be crisper.

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