Somebody rose and asked him if he had considered putting the elements in alphabetical order. They were very cruel.

有人起来问他,是否考虑过将这些元素,按字母顺序排列，他们非常冷酷。

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bviously,the phases are no longer in alphabetical order, but I introduced D in the middle so the other phases could keep their same labels.

显然，这阶段不是按照字母表的顺序排列的，我在这里放入D，其他阶段不变。

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So, what happens here is this opening phrase, that we'll call A-- musicians like to label stuff just with alphabetical labels to keep it simple.

那么,首句这里,我们称作A,音乐家喜欢用字母,来做标记,这样比较简单

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