音乐本能：音乐的作用机理及人们欲罢不能的缘由。
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It. By Philip Ball.
因而音乐的作用，也是人们通过对其欣赏，受其熏陶而达到的。
Thus the role of music, but also people through its appreciation, is affected by its edification and achieve.
克林特·伊斯特伍德不怎么懂音乐，好像也不怎么相信音乐的作用，而更看重声效。
Clint Eastwood "didn't much understand music", didn't seem to trust it, and preferred sound effects.
有人认为音乐在社会中发挥了重要作用，有人认为音乐的作用仅仅是个人娱乐，讨论两种意见？
Some people think music plays an important role in society, while others believe music is simply a form of entertainment for individuals. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
但是在我看来，将音乐的作用发挥到极致的，并不是那些昂贵的游戏产品，而是一款免费的网络游戏：《大礼堂》。
But to my mind the game that makes the finest use of music isn't an expensive boxed production, but one that is free to play online: Auditorium.
那么音乐便可以成为让人摆脱忧郁或起到镇静作用的工具。
Then music could be a tool for pulling someone out of depression or calming them down.
近年来，科学家们正致力于研究音乐是如何对大脑产生作用和它的诸多功能。
For years, scientists have been studying how music affects the brain and its functions.
古典音乐对我的绘画一直起着重要作用，可田纳西对古典乐却知之甚少。
Tennessee didn't know too much about classical music, which has always been important to my painting.
文化的作用同样不可小觑——亚洲各地的许多年轻人进入了日本的流行音乐和动漫市场，而日本人反过来也正着迷于韩国的女子团体和电视剧。
Culture also plays a role: many young people in Asia were brought up on Japan's J-pop music scene and manga comics. The Japanese, for their part, are wowed by South Korea's girl bands and soap operas.
很少有人会怀疑，古典音乐使人变得更聪明，并对你在其它领域里取得成功也有积极的作用。
There is little doubt that classical music produces better minds, and promotes success in other fields.
研究更进一步，1968年，大学生DorthyRetallack开始研究音乐对植物的作用。
Research took a new avenue when in 1968 a college student, Dorthy Retallack, started researching the effects of music on plants.
文化的作用同样不可小觑——亚洲各地的许多年轻人进入了日本的流行音乐和动漫市场，而日本人反过来也正着迷于韩国的女子团体和电视剧。
Culture also plays a role: many young people in Asia were brought up on Japan's J-pop music scene and manga comics.The Japanese, for their part, are wowed by South Korea's girl bands and soap operas.
然而跟音乐不同的是，舞蹈具有很强的模仿和表现的作用，这就提示也许舞蹈曾经是一种早期的语言形式。
Unlike music, however, dance has a strong capacity for representation and imitation, which suggests that dance may have further served as an early form of language.
我们的消费者告诉我们，他们不想下载音乐到他们工作用的电脑里或手机上，因为他们发现要把音乐移到其它的设备将会很困难。
Our customers have told us they don't want to download music to their work computers or phones because they find it hard to move music around to different devices.
促成这一变化的最大的原因是几个促进民间音乐组织的建立，其中起到最大作用的是丹麦民间艺术委员会。
The biggest catalyst for this change was the founding of several organizations to promote folk music, the most important of which was the Danish folk Council.
如果没有被认可的超级明星的资本，音乐即赠品的模式如何在他们身上起作用？
How does themusic-as-a-freebie model work for them, without the kind of namerecognition that superstars capitalize on?
威利斯.科诺菲尔并不是一位爵士音乐人，然而，许多人认为，他对爵士乐的推广所起的作用比音乐史上的任何一位音乐人都要大。
Willis Conover was not a jazz musician. However, many people believe that he did more to spread the sound of jazz than any person in music history.
1982年，北德克萨斯大学的研究员对研究生们进行了一个三段式测试，以观察音乐是否对记忆单词起到任何作用。
In 1982, researchers from the University of North Texas performed a three-way test on postgraduate students to see if music could help in memorizing vocabulary words.
区域内更多的旅游或将有助于消解部分疑虑，文化同样也发挥着作用：亚洲许多年轻人听着日本流行音乐、看着日本漫画长大；而日本人则同样热衷于韩国的女子乐队和电视剧。
More tourism within the region may help ease some of the misgivings. Culture also plays a role: many young people in Asia were brought up on Japan’s J-pop music scene and manga comics.
但是音乐的好处是有限的，而且只有当你充分利用它的时候才会起作用。
But there are limits to the benefits of music, and they probably kick in just when you could use the help the most.
音乐是我自己能够发挥作用的唯一方式，这次集合了不同文化的音乐创作会为四川的人民筹集到资金。
Music is the only way I can personally aim to make a difference. By uniting our cultures we will hopefully raise a lot of money for the people of Sichuan.
但在诸如音乐、棋类、科学这类复杂活动中，以及诸如高尔夫这样脑力活动占相当大比重的运动中，工作记忆容量仍能起到预测表现的作用。
Working memory capacity can still predict performance in complex domains such as music, chess, science, and maybe even in sports that have a substantial mental component such as golf.
但是，一项在被试人听音乐时扫描其大脑的新调查发现，多巴胺的作用不仅仅是间接的。
But the new work, which scanned people's brains as they listened to music, shows it happening directly.
个人来说，音乐对我的人生，产生了重大的影响，我决定对它为其他人带来的作用，进行深入研究。
Having been affected personally so much by music and how music has shaped my life I am driven to deeply explore with that impact with other people.
如今，一度用来提升年轻人思想修养，震撼他们心灵的古典音乐，正在被挖掘出能对不良行为起到威慑作用的潜力。
And now classical music, which was once taught to young people as a way of elevating their minds and tingling their souls, is being mined for its potential as a deterrent against bad behavior.
音乐有徽记的作用而且还可以带来情感共鸣，由此使其得以成为想要建立自己品牌的企业的有力工具。
Music's cachet and emotional pull also make it a potent weapon for businesses that want to build their own brands.
所以：音乐真能有效地改善情绪，甚至有着极大的作用么？
So: can music really improve the mood that much, and have an appreciable difference on whether or not you get it on?
所以：音乐真能有效地改善情绪，甚至有着极大的作用么？
So: can music really improve the mood that much, and have an appreciable difference on whether or not you get it on?
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