The fact that it was blue or red is not relevant, and if I threw a gorilla at him it doesn't matter what the color of the gorilla is, what mood it is in.

物体是蓝色还是红色都没有关系,如果我扔给他一只大猩猩,它的颜色和情绪都是不重要的

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So when we hear any particular sound, again, we're hearing an amalgam of many sounds, and the importance of each of these partials in the aggregate of sound is what gives it its particular color.

那么,当我们听到某个声音的时候,其实听到的是很多声音的混合物,混合声音中的这些分音之所以重要,就是因为它们决定了自身特定的音色

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