生活是一种外语，谁都发不好他的音。

Life is a foreign language, all men mispronounce it.

youdao

他演奏了这支曲子开始的几个音。

He played the first few notes of the tune.

《牛津词典》

音乐中切分音的大师是斯考特·乔普林，他是位非裔美国作曲家，二十世纪之际在圣路易斯地区附近谱写了很多曲子。

The master of syncopation in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis at the turn of the twentieth century.

youdao

Let's say Pavarotti at the end of his life couldn't hold notes as long as he could when he was recording in nineteen seventy-eight.

比方说，在帕瓦罗蒂的晚年，他不能像在1978年那样,拖很长的音的时候。

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But he brings, in effect, the sound of the downbeat in a beat early, gives it a little bit of pep there at that particular point.

但是他,事实上,把强拍的音提前了一拍,在这个位置添加了一丝刺激

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He invites us to hear the sweep of the scythe in those s sounds themselves, I think, and maybe even to hear the workers huff and puff, his rhythmic exhalation in the w's, which alternate and interact with those s's.

他让我们倾听镰刀扫过的声音,我觉得应该是这些s的发音上,也可能是听着劳动者的喘息声，他的有节奏的w似的发声，跟s音交替着互动。

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