Never before had consumers been able to listen to music as they walked down the street, without balancing a tape player on their shoulder.

在此之前，消费者想要在街上欣赏音乐，非得在肩上背一个磁带播放机不可。

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After that, he took out a tool box and connected his tape player with the new tape to his alarm clock.

之后，他拿出一个工具箱，把录音机和新磁带连接到闹钟上。

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At a certain time in the morning, the tape player would play soft music with a low and sweet voice of a young girl, "Wake up, please."

在早上的某个时间，录音机会播放轻柔的音乐，一个年轻女孩低沉而甜美的声音从录音机里传来：“请起床。”

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They don't know whether they are buying a beta tape or a VHS tape or a DVD and they don't know whether their DVD player will play the DVDs of their neighbor.

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Eight years after being caught on tape trying to cover up NCAA rules violations at Baylor by portraying a murdered player as a drug dealer, Bliss again finds himself a subject of controversy even as he works to revive his career as a coach and administrator at a private school with less than 300 students.

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The youngest of three children, he recalls singing devotional songs as well as hearing a lot of Bollywood music on his father's reel-to-reel tape player.

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