Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

  • -- Serge Schmemann 资深记者舒梅曼

购买功能强大的汽车的人会对排气问题给予很高的重视,而汽车制造商也会花很多钱来解决这个问题。与此同时,高端汽车有望过滤掉世俗世界的声音。

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Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

有些人说我能“听到”一首热门歌曲,意思是如果一首歌曲有潜力,我能知道它第一次为我播放。我已经能够通过这种方式听到一些热门歌曲,但我也能“感觉到”其中的一首。

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

当我真正开始喜欢音乐的时候,是我可以自己演奏一些音乐的时候,在演奏了几年民谣之后,我重新发现了那些我小时候一直在广播里播放的热门歌曲。

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

如果事情不容易,努力是没有好处的。在追逐中应该有快乐,在追求中应该有热情。

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

至于我最喜欢的网站,我在网上做了很多平常的事情,因为我经常旅行。

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

知识分子是通过降低自己的障碍来逃避世俗的人。