小提大奏的部落格

拿字典，按暫停。

一個字一個字查，一個句子一個句子地了解涵義。

韋瓦弟及巴哈團會有隨堂單字測驗。

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Antonio Stradivari was a seventeenth century violin maker,

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whose name in its Latin form Stradivarius (接下一頁)

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has become synonymous with excellence. (第一頁到這兒一句)

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He once said (接第五頁)

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that to make a violin less than his best (接下一頁)

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would be to rob God, (接下一頁)

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who could not make Antonio Stadivari's violins without Antonio. (第四頁到這兒一句)

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He was right. (這個 He 是誰? 是Stradivari 或是 God?)

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God could not make Stradivarius violins without Antonio Stradivari.

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Certain gifts were given to that craftsman that no other violin maker possessed.

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In the same vein, (這個要會！接下一頁）

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there are certain things you can do that no one else can.

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Perhaps it is parenting, of constructing houses, or encouraging the discouraged.

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There are things that only you can do,

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and you are alive to do them.

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In the great orchestra we call life.

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You have an instrument and a song,

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and you owe it to God to play them both

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sublimely.