Those of you who have a basic knowledge of music theory, will notice that I started in the key of E-major, and moved leftwards in the circle of fifths.

如果你知道乐理的基本知识，那么就会注意到我从e大调开始，然后沿5度圈逆时针转动到下一个调。

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His motives are partly self-serving: he needs social credentials in a state that leans leftwards.

ECONOMIST: The sad lack of reformers in Germany, even on the right

He also claims that Mr Prodi has shifted leftwards since he was prime minister in 1996-98.

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Even before his party reforms, the tendency of Labour governments had been to move rightwards not leftwards under the pressures of the real world.

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