我刚好抽得出更多的时间来作曲。

I was just finding more time to write music.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

在与外界声音隔绝之后，贝多芬开始用“心”来作曲。

In with the outside world after the sound isolation, Beethoven began to use "heart" to compose.

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每次贝多芬坐下来作曲的时候，他都往自己的头上浇冰水。

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

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It gives a sense of what this music is all--really all about and since, as we were saying, so much classical music doesn't have a text with it we've got to have some markers in there to know what the composer is trying to communicate to us.

让我们了解这段音乐想表达什么，就像我说的，大部分古典音乐并没有文字注解，而我们需要一些标记,来告诉我们作曲家想用这段音乐告诉我们什么。

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