Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.

无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子

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In the Ninth Symphony again and you're saying, "Oh, I'm getting really worried now."

是在第九交响乐中,我现在真的有点担心了

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Can anybody tell me why to a person in this room we all responded positively to the Ninth Symphony and somewhat more anxiously to the Fifth Symphony?

谁能说说为什么在这间教室里,每个人对第九交响曲的反应是积极的,而大多数对于第五交响曲是消极的呢

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Indeed, does anybody know the title of the Beethoven Ninth symphony?

谁能确切说出贝多芬,第九交响乐的名字吗

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Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.

路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头

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All right. So those of you that are raising your hand, and some aren't raising their hands but that's okay, those of you almost unanimously say that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony sounds somewhat ominous to us, somewhat fateful to us, and the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conversely has a different sort of feel to it.

你们其中的有些人举起了手,其他的没有举,其实都很好,你们当中的几乎一致认定,贝多芬第五交响乐,听起来是对宿命的激烈的抗争,然而贝多芬第九交响曲相反的,采用了另外的一种不同的方式

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