Just as unfit peacocks cannot grow splendid tails, so unfit people cannot sing well, dance well (for singing and dancing go together, as it were, like a horse and carriage) or play music well.

就好比不适合生存的孔雀不能长出美丽的雀尾，不适合生存的人类也不能唱出美妙的歌曲，跳起迷人的舞蹈（唱歌跳舞就好比马和马车一样紧密结合），抑或流畅演奏。

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Most of the time, I just sing to myself, and if it happens to make others happy, then it's not a bad thing.

大部分时间我都是唱给自己听，不过要是我的歌碰巧能让别人快乐，那么也不算是件坏事。

youdao

I'm sure they enjoyed watching me sing and dance around the house, but I know it never occurred to any of us that one day I would be doing just that before hundreds of thousands of people.

我敢保证，他们一定非常喜欢看我在屋子里又唱又跳，不过我清楚当时没有人想过有一天我同样也会在成千上万人面前又唱又跳。

youdao

"It's just not where I'm at right now in my life to seriously sing that.

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It's not just that virgins are entitled to sing a heavenly song as Milton is saying Diodati is.

处子们获得的奖赏不仅仅是可以唱圣歌,如弥尔顿所说迪奥达蒂会唱的那样。

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He would rear back and just sing this song and it's a very meaningful song to me, so I had to include it.

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' We--I just want you to sing it live.

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