来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第16集 第16集》

• 
  
  and so people, especially women but men too,
  于是一些人 尤其是女性 当然也有男士
• 
  
  studied how to play various instruments.
  学习如何弹奏各种乐器
• 
  
  So, they could read music
  因此 他们懂得乐谱
• 
  
  and they could understand it in a way
  并且从某种程度上说他们懂音乐
• 
  
  that only a participant can.
  这些只有会演奏的人才体会得到
• 
  
  Hardly anybody who goes to a concert today
  而当今 去音乐会的人
• 
  
  is in that situation.
  几乎没几个人能感同身受了
• 
  
  So, Beethoven and Brahms
  所以说 贝多芬 勃拉姆斯
• 
  
  and people like that
  还有像他们一样
• 
  
  wrote their compositions and orchestras and so on
  自己创作的人和组建管弦乐队的人 等等
• 
  
  and they play their composition to people
  是在为那些在一定程度上
• 
  
  who were in a certain sense almost experts,
  称得上是专家的人 演奏自己的作品