We start lessons in the afternoon at half past one.

我们下午一点半开始上课。

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Then one evening Dad announced that I would start lessons the following week.

一天晚上，爸爸宣布下周我开始上琴课。

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"I wanted to start lessons even earlier than that," she says, "but my mother decided that four was plenty early enough."

椎名4岁开始学习钢琴，“我曾想更早开始学，”她说，“但家母认为四岁已经足够早了。”

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