It works its magic, again, through purely instrumental means, so we can't really call those songs, and this puzzled me.

纯器乐的演奏方式,容我重申,能产生神奇的效果,所以我们其实不能把器乐称为歌曲,这让我很困惑

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It could be purely instrumental but it's called "Buy a song," But we don't want to use that sort of parlance.

可能买的是纯器乐,却被称为"买首歌",但我们不想用那种说法

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The third and final type of learning is known as operant conditioning or instrumental conditioning.

第三种，也是最后一种学习类型,叫做作操作性条件作用,或是工具性条件作用。

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I'm going to talk about one futures market that I have been instrumental in developing.

我会讲一个我研究的,对发展发挥了很大作用期货市场

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If we want to get anyplace on the question about the nature of the good life, what we need to focus on is not the instrumental goods and bads, but rather the intrinsic goods and bads.

如果我们想在,何为“好的人生的本质“问题上得出结论，我们需要专注的不是利用价值的好与坏，而是固有价值的好与坏。

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Again welcome back to Professor Stan Katz Drew Frederick and welcome to Drew Frederick, who is a class of seven, graduating, but who is very instrumental in a class that I want to talk about today, which is called the Just University.

让我们再次欢迎Stan，Katz教授,还要有请，他是七班的毕业生，在一门课上起到了重要的作用,我今天就像谈一下这门课，课程叫做，公正的大学。

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Well, yes, with opera of course, but the other eighty percent is purely instrumental music.

没错,歌剧中是有歌词的,但其他百分之八十的古典乐都是纯器乐

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Well, we have a particular recipe for instrumental timbre or instrumental color and it's the intensity of the overtones with -- or partials-- within each particular instrument that creates that.

我们乐器的音质,或者说音色,也有独有的配方,那就是每种乐器营造的,分音,或泛音的强度

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Still, in trying to get clear about the nature of wellbeing, the crucial thing to do is to focus not on the question about instrumental value, but rather to focus on the question of intrinsic value.

想搞清楚幸福的本质，至关重要的不是专注于,利用价值的问题，而是应专注于固有价值的问题。

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Instrumental conditioning is voluntary.

工具性条件作用则是有机体的自发行为。

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What things are worth having for their own sake, whether or not those things also have instrumental value, What things are worth having for their own sake ? and what things are worth avoiding for their own sake?

什么东西是因其自身品质而值得拥有，不管它们是否有利用价值，什么东西是因其自身品质而值得拥有,什么东西是因其自身品质而应避免？

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What instrumental sound do you hear?

你会听到什么乐器的声音呢

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