He writes down this four- to five-minute composition note for note in just one sitting.

他便一口气,逐个音符地,写下了这段四到五分钟的作品

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You might say, "Wait a minute, I thought the tonic was down here."

你也许会说,等等,我想主音应该在这里

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And then of course, the point of the skit is he presses the down button on the elevator and a minute and a half goes by while he's waiting for the elevator to come.

当然，这个滑稽短剧的笑点是,他按下了电梯按钮,花了一分半,等电梯。

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We have 266 ping-pong balls, and we need someone, hopefully you, to be some radioactive material that are going to be emitting these ping-pong balls. And when the time comes, in just a minute, I'll ask the TAs to come down and hand these out very quickly to you, so we can do this experiment.

你们有些人那天，看到我在办公室数乒乓球，我们需要几个人,希望是你,来作为放射材料，放射这些乒乓球,等会我会让助教,把这些球发给你们。

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In principle, we could play this with the whole class, but let's single out a particular row of the class so I'm going to come down here and I guess eventually, well I'll grab it in a minute.

理论上,我们可以全班一起做这个博弈,但我要选出特定的一行,我先走下来,我觉得,我很快就能挑到人

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