Lizzie used to play the violin.

莉齐过去常拉小提琴。

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He taught himself to play the violin.

他自学拉小提琴。

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Jim started to play the violin when he was five.

吉姆五岁时开始拉小提琴。

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As a child,Benjamin, or Benny as his friends called him, learned to play the violin.

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There will be millions of kids out there now that say "Gee, I'd like to learn to play the violin too."

如今会有成数以百万计的孩子,会说,"哇,我也要学小提琴"

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Because Albert Einstein, who I had on my wall,as a undergrad he meant so much to me, not only we both play the violin, the most brilliant mind and intelligence in the 20th century.

我还是大学生的时候，我家墙上有一副爱因斯坦的画像,他对于我来说非常重要，不仅因为我们都拉小提琴，20世纪最聪明最有智慧的人。

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Mansfield took up the ukulele in 2007, after his cancer made it too difficult for him to play the violin.

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"If somebody makes an instrument, you wouldn't say the person who made the violin is the composer of what people play on the violin, " he says.

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"I was supposed to be playing Bach, and all I wanted to do was play the Mendelssohn violin concerto, " Hope says.

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