and maybe four or five different recordings of it.

但有五六种不同的录音版本
When was Pavarotti really good

他在什么时候是巅峰
and when did he stop being really good?

什么时候风采不再了呢
Don't buy anything of Pavarotti after 1980..

不要买1980年以后的帕瓦罗蒂
From 'seventy eight, 'seventy-nine, 'eighty--

78 79 80年
that's the heyday of Pavarotti's recordings and they're spectacular.

那才是帕瓦罗蒂的巅峰时代
Nobody could touch this guy.

那时的他无可比拟
But thereafter they really do begin to decline

但从那以后就开始走下坡了
and you could do comparative--

你可以比较一下
comparisons of these various recordings

对比不同的录音版本
over time to watch the decline,

来看他的衰退
and it's sort of sad,

这很杯具