If you want to play an instrument well, you've got to stick at it.

要想练好一种乐器，你必须持之以恒。

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Develop an analytical ear for music. Learn to appreciate peculiar kinds of music. Learn to play some musical instrument well, or sing.

训练你的耳朵对音乐的分析能力，试著欣赏某种特殊的音乐，并好好的玩一些乐器或者唱歌。

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During the Warring States Period, there was a musician called Gongming Yi, who played musical instrument qixianqin very well.

战国时期，有个音乐家叫公明仪，他的七弦琴弹得很好。

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One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

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it's dependent just the same way that well, for example, harmony is denpendent upon the physical instrument.

依赖的方式同,举个例子,和声依赖物质的乐器是一个道理。

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People realized almost immediately that the young man could play the instrument very well.

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And so it takes some skills that are in addition to playing your instrument well and being good musicians.

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Remember: A convertible's price is based on its yield as a debt instrument as well as on its value as a stock in waiting.

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Thus, the minimum wage is not a well-targeted instrument for helping the poor.

ECONOMIST: Labour��s wage policy