Joseph was playing his last piece of music when a middle-aged man who looked excited stopped and put a 50-dollar banknote into the hat.

约瑟夫正在演奏最后一支曲子，这时一位看上去很兴奋的中年男子停下来，把一张50美元的钞票放进了帽子里。

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Sure, those who got out early made a lot of money; the rest of us just got caught when the music stopped.

确实如此，那些出手早的人挣到了许多钱；而剩下的我们这些人则在游戏停止时深陷其中。

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Then, abruptly, the music stopped as the hedge funds who were supporting Apple into their fiscal year end on October 31st, began to bail out.

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Nearly half of the people who had stopped or sharply reduced their music downloading cited those services as the reason for stopping.

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The report said as many as 40% of people who used illegal music services in 2011 stopped doing so in 2012.

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