She says the drum beats sound like robots walking in the snow.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The drum beat is all about language.

一切都与语言密切相关。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The bass drum and the tuba or in the marching band, it would be a sousaphone they would call it, the bass drum and tuba.

该是低音鼓和低音号,军乐队中,该是他们所说的苏萨大号,低音鼓和低音号

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In the winter of nineteen sixty-four, the Beatles packed up their electric guitars,drum kits, and rebellious ways and set off for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

The brain perceives all of this complex information and it processes it and it extrapolates from it the beat, but again nobody in music-- except the bass drum player in a marching band-- nobody in music ever does anything except just play the beat.

我们的大脑感知了所有复杂的信息加工后,推算出了拍子,不过没有人,除了军乐队的低音鼓手,没有人在音乐里仅仅只是打鼓点

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He was the end of the twenty minute drum solo. It was goodnight Haight-Ashbury, hello Asbury Park."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

"South Africa is very keen to drum up support and worldwide interest in the World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Mr.Brown has just returned from a whistle-stop tour of France, the United States and South America to drum up support for unified economic action.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30