Mr Roberts shows boyish pleasure and admiration at the great feats of arms he describes. But the underlying tones of this magnificent book are in a minor key: furious sorrow at the waste of it all.

罗伯特先生对战争伟业表现了孩子般的欢欣和崇拜，但隐藏在这部伟大著作后面的调子去时对所有战争中失去的深切的悲痛。

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Afraid that he will be punished for making a mistake, an employee working on the assembly line in a high-volume manufacturing facility ignores a “minor” production flaw in one of your key products.

高产量制造流水线上的一名工人，因为还没被惩罚，忽略了核心产品的一个小瑕疵。

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Why do tunes in a major key, such as Singin' in the Rain, sound cheerful, while those in minor keys – Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall, say – sound gloomy and depressing?

为什么大音阶的曲调，如《万花嬉春》（又名《雨中曲》）的声音显得非常轻松愉快，而小音阶的乐曲，譬如像《墙上的另一块砖》听起来却十分悲观沉闷?。

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Arborea's self-titled CD reflects the sepia-toned landscapes and creaky acoustic instrumentation of backwoods Americana, and the minor-key narratives tell sinister tales in the spirit of English murder ballads.

NPR: Arborea: 'Black Mountain Road'

In European trading, losses were widespread but minor, with key indexes in the main markets showing fractional percentage declines.

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They followed the triumphs and occasional disappointments of election night on a giant screen, greeting minor adjustments to the vote in key states with gales of applause and reacting to bigger news, like an outright victory, with a hurricane of sound that would have frightened the Beatles off stage.

BBC: Obama campaign blazes to victory