She learned to play the instrument when she was a small child and gave her first public recital at age 9.

当她还是个小孩子的时候，就学会了演奏乐器，并在9岁时举行了她的第一次公开独奏会。

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As Druss said, "Any kind of public health effort is a relatively blunt instrument."

如德鲁斯所说：“任何公共健康的努力都是一种相当钝的工具。”

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Or, as Druss said: "Any kind of public health effort is a relatively blunt instrument."

或者，如Druss所说：“任何公共健康努力都是相当钝的工具。”

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Philip Peters, Vice President of Lexington Institute, a private research orgnization based in Virginia, disagrees with members of Congress who assert that ending TV Marti broadcasts would strengthen the Castro regime in Cuba: "I don't know how we have gotten ourselves in the position where this particular instrument of public diplomacy is a test of everyone's manhood with regard to Communism in Cuba.

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It was considered impolite for women to play an instrument in public, and yet in the teens around the time of the suffrage movement, women formed in America all-female, all-saxophone bands of four, eight, 12, 20 saxophones.

NPR: Saxophone's History as 'The Devil's Horn'

To restore fiscal sanity to Washington and make our government an instrument of the public good, not of private plunder.

CNN: Clinton: It is time to take back the country we love

So we need a political action instrument of US national security policy to influence public opinion and decisionmaking in other countries.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy