Sit quite still and don't talk: but you may sing a song, if you can sing; or you may say a nice long interesting ballad — one of those you promised to teach me: or a story.

静静地坐着，别说话：可要是你能唱歌也可以唱个歌；或者你可以说一首又长又好又有趣的歌谣——你答应过教我的；或者讲个故事。

youdao

A. Music is often something that brings out long-term memories and well-practiced skills, so that people who haven't spoken in years will often begin to sing along to a song they know well.

音乐常常是能够激起长时记忆与成熟的技艺，所以几年没有说话的人往往会跟着一首他们比较熟悉的歌曲一起唱和。

youdao

C: My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now, a love song.

上校：我的奥地利同胞，也许很长一段时间，我将不再见到你们。

youdao

The light of a full moon shimmered on the plain, and from time to time they saw a rabbit jump, but Pereda paid no attention, and after a long spell of silence he softly began to sing a song in French that his late wife had liked.

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