来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：聆听音乐第8集第8集》

You knew it was time to start clapping

你知道现在该开始鼓掌了
as soon as that chord hit that,

就在和弦碰到那里的时候
it stopped going back and forth,tonic, dominant,

便不再往复演奏主和弦属和弦
just sitting there. That piece is over.

就停在那里乐曲结束了
The rest is just a big mud pie in your face. Okay?

剩下的只是你那像被泥巴糊满的脸
It's just tonic or maybe throwing an anchor overboard

或者说像把锚抛下船让船停稳
to bring this ship to an end--

只有主和弦
whatever sort of analogy

不论怎样比喻
or visual imagine you want to bring to it,

就算你自己有更好的想像
but it's--the piece has ended.

都不重要了曲子结束了
Even though we are continuing to

尽管我们还感觉
hear sound, harmonically, psychologically,

余音绕梁在心理上