So,if we get down to brass tacks, we can prevent ripoffs and bogus ways of earning money in that jungle out there.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

The horn obviously is a brass instrument and what makes the sound is a vibrating column of air.

显而易见的,圆号是个铜管乐器,它通过震动空气柱来发出声音

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Then a brass instrument enters and what is the name of this brass instrument?

然后一个铜管乐器出现了,那么这个铜管乐器是什么

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When they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the brass tacks, the copper pieces that hold the boat together.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Now the instrument is--that is--playing is a low tuba, a low brass instrument.

现在在演奏的乐器,是低音号,一种低音铜管乐器

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To be successful, a person in business works hard and tries to get down to brass tacks.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

So, it's the brass he's going to bring in at this point.

那么,这时候该铜管进入了

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He also leads the four-member brass band, drummer and bass player.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Okay. So obviously we've now seen a little bit of the brass family and the woodwind family, and the other principal section of the orchestra would obviously be the string family.

好,很明显,我们刚接触了一些铜管乐器,和木管乐器,而管弦乐队另一个最主要的部分,显而易见,是弦乐器

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Beyond the main stage, Cajun,brass bands,gospel,country, blues and folk, with a continuous offering of traditional and contemporary jazz and world music.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

So the brass instrument is the--is a--trumpet.

那么铜管乐器是小号

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The brass and sometimes percussion.

是铜管乐器,有时是打击乐器

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So, we'll listen to the end of the third presentation of this with the contrapuntal idea dominated by strings, melody, bass, other stuff in the middle and then he will bring in the brass for the final statement of this.

我们听完第三次主题呈现,由对位理念主导的,弦乐组,旋律,低音部,以及中间的东西,然后他会引入铜管乐器,作为最后的陈述

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