If something sounds pleasant, it's called consonance - as opposed to its opposite, dissonance - but what determines which sounds are pleasant or not?

如果某个声音听起来令人愉快，它被称为和谐，而不是它的反面，不和谐。但是，声音是如何被确定为令人愉快或不愉快的呢？

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Not because it sounds pleasant or because it makes us feel good, but because it's the only way we can overcome the essential deficit that exists in this country.

我之所以这样说，既不是因为这句话听起来好听，也不是因为它能让我们感到愉快，我这样说，是因为只有这样美国人才能战胜眼下切实的困难。

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A recent study from the science publication Current Biology attempts to determine the basic neurological and cultural reasons why people think music sounds pleasant or not.

为什么人们认为有的音乐声音听起来令人愉快或不愉快，科学刊物“当代生物学”最近发表的一项研究，试图确定基本的神经和文化层面的原因。

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That sounds like a pretty pleasant life.

听上去日子好像很惬意。

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Skinner, in his book Verbal Behavior, talks about the question of why do we do things like talk to ourselves, imitate sounds, create art, give bad news to an enemy, fantasize about pleasant situations?

斯金纳在其《言语行为》一书中，描述了我们展现各种行为的原因,如自言自语，声音模仿，创造艺术，向敌人散布坏消息，幻想美好情景等等？

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Sounds like a pleasant final resting place.

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Unexpectedly, he could make pleasant sounds.

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The first thing to notice inside is the pleasant chime that sounds whenever you enter the car or turn off the engine.

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