Mussorgsky sat down and tried to come up with, create a musical response to each of these paintings that were on display.

穆索尔斯基坐下来,寻找灵感,想创作一首音乐作品来呼应这些,展览出的画作

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Just come in and settle down, because it's very hard to lecture with this amount of traffic.

进来以后就赶紧坐下来,你们这样乱糟糟的我讲不下去

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So if we were management consultants working for Mckinsey or something, and we were brought in to advise you on your homework assignments, or this law partnership on their work practices, we would come down with a prediction that this is how much work you're going to get.

如果我们是麦肯锡公司的管理顾问,或者给你们的作业提出点好的建议,或者对于现实中的律师事务所,我们都能够预测出来,你可能会投入多少工作量

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So we have to come up--we mortals-- have to come up with some other device, and our device to remember things is to try to write it down because my premise here is, if you can write music down clearly you are hearing it, clearly, and you would have a better chance of remembering it if you could write it down.

因此我们普通人,必须开发出,不得不开发出一些其它的方法,而我们用来记忆的方法,就是试着写下来,它的前提是,如果你可以将听到的音乐清楚地写下来,很清楚,那么你就更有可能,记住它,前提是你能写下它

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