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Composition
I don't listen to much modern composition.
我不怎么听现代作曲。
I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
我必须说，我总是从表演者的角度来创作音乐。
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
构成赋予渗透世界的自然声音以适当的意义。
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
在照相前研究构图的规律，就像在散步前研究万有引力定律一样。
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
写作的过程，摆弄段落，试图写出真正好的散文，是我与生俱来的性格。
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
在痛苦的时刻，当写作是不可能的，阅读是不够的，语法和字典是很好的分散注意力。
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
由于缺乏独到的学识，没有形成良好的思维习惯，对写作艺术一窍不通，我决定写一本书。
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
什么构成了良好的性能?通过唱歌或演奏使耳朵意识到乐曲真实内容和影响的能力。
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
作家不只是坐下来写作的人。他们危害自己。每次你写一本书，你对自己的看法就会受到威胁。
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.
我一直觉得有一个点，一个片段似乎是活着的，也就是说，活着。这就是我知道合成完成的地方。
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
当我上高中的时候，我开始对细胞化学感兴趣:显微镜下的化学分析，并试图了解细胞的组成。
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
自由地看，英语是每一种方言、种族和时间范围的增加和发展，是所有语言的自由和紧凑的组成。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
人们曾试图通过研究突变所产生的变化来获得不同三胞胎中碱基的相对顺序，但我个人的观点是，在有关于三胞胎组成的更广泛和更可靠的数据之前，这些都还为时过早。
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
我总是把钱看作构成要素而不是激励因素。你不能忽视它，但你必须非常小心，它不会激励你。