The drum is one of the oldest musical instruments.

鼓是最古老的乐器之一。

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One museum has only musical instruments.

一个博物馆只有乐器。

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Mr. Jones, your student, Bill, shows great enthusiasm for musical instruments.

琼斯先生，你的学生比尔对乐器表现出极大的热情。

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Scientists agree that musical instruments are a sign of fully modern behavior and a complex form of communication.

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They have not evolved to tolerate some of the man made sounds that have very unusual and unnatural physical characteristics. These sounds are for example explosives, industrial noise, musical instruments, power tools, and headphones.

还没有进化到能忍受,某些怪异，超出常规的人为声响,如爆炸，工业噪音,乐器，电动工具和耳机等等。

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And you went ahead and worked with the Listening Exercises nine through eleven to engage the musical instruments a bit in those particular exercises, and we have performers here today that are going to, as you can see, demonstrate some of these instruments for us.

你们先前做过,听力练习九至十一题,在这些练习中,你们增长了对乐器的一些认识,今天我们请来了表演者,你们将看到,他们稍候,将为我们在这里演示一些乐器

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As his songwriting developed, Donovan incorporated new instruments and musical styles.

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"I knew before that it would be so difficult for me as a composer because traditional musical instruments are never played in big performances, Cambodian musicians never read (musical) notes, they don't work with a conductor and especially related to the tune -- the pitch of traditional instruments -- it's not enough tune to perform with the rock band, " Him Sophy said.

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Before broadcasting began in 1924, musical entertainment in the home stemmed from self-playing musical instruments and automata.

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