Humans may encourage the animals to play instruments, but the elephants make their own songs; they don't just copy their trainers or other people.

人类会鼓励大象演奏乐器，但大象会自己创作音乐；它们不只是模仿驯兽师或其他人。

Like how? Play sports, do drawing, play instruments?

怎麽创意法？打球，画画，弹乐器？

I've always admired people who can play instruments well.

我一直很羡慕那些乐器弹得很好的人。

Their rock and roll lineage suggests they may well be quite the musicians when older, though they are barely old enough to play instruments yet.

两位童星的摇滚血统得天独厚，长大后很有可能成为音乐人，尽管年幼的他们现在刚刚可以弹奏乐器。

The club provides a safe environment to learn to play instruments and to perform together in bands. The club even has its own recording studio.

俱乐部为他们学习乐器、组乐队演出提供一个安全的环境，该俱乐部甚至有自己的录音棚。

We have to paint rather than look at paintings, to play instruments rather than go to concerts, to dance and sing and act ourselves, engaging all our senses in the ritual and discipline of the arts.

不是去欣赏油画，我们自己应当去作画；不是去听音乐会，我们自己应当去演奏乐器，去跳舞，去唱歌，去演戏，让我们的感官受各个艺术门类的规矩和训练。

Now I can play many instruments, such as piano, guitar and violin.

现在我可以演奏很多乐器，如钢琴，吉他和小提琴。

They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the four instruments.

他们还询问孩子们，对于男孩或女孩是否不该演奏这四种乐器中的某一种，他们怎么看。

There was broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons vary.

男孩和女孩之间对于每种性别应该演奏什么乐器有广泛的一致意见，原因也各不相同。

All of the instruments have different sounds, and the parts they play blend and harmonize with one another.

所有的乐器都有不同的声音，它们演奏的部分相互融合、协调。

Many years ago, people played Latin music mostly on guitars with drums, but now whole orchestras with lots of other instruments play it.

许多年前，人们主要用吉他和鼓演奏拉丁音乐，但现在的拉丁音乐都以拥有很多其他乐器的整个管弦乐队来演奏。

Only a minority of young people play classical instruments.

只有少数年轻人弹奏古典乐器。

They asked them to identify 4 musical instruments and then to say which they would like to play most and which they would least like to play.

研究人员让他们识别四种乐器，然后说出他们最喜欢和最不喜欢演奏的乐器。

According to psychologists Susan Onco and Michael Balton, children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play.

根据心理学家 Susan Onco 和 Michael Balton 的研究，孩子们对于应该演奏哪种乐器有着非常清晰的想法。

While almost half of all boys said they avoid certain instruments because they were too difficult to play, only 15% of girls gave that as a reason.

尽管几乎有一半的男孩表示，他们会避免使用某些乐器，因为它们太难了，只有15%的女孩给出了这样的理由。

I didn't know how to play any instruments.

我不会演奏任何乐器。

His father taught him to play many musical instruments.

他父亲教他演奏许多乐器。

Gordon, a high school student, now can play 13 instruments—though he has never learned music.

戈登是一名高中生，虽然他从未学过音乐，但他现在能演奏13种乐器。

The talented boy can play different kinds of musical instruments.

这个有天赋的男孩会演奏各种各样的乐器。

During a performance, the elephants play a variety of instruments, including the drums and the xylophone.

在表演中，大象会演奏各种乐器，包括鼓和木琴。

Abing's father taught him to play many musical instruments, such as the drums, dizi and erhu, and by age 17, Abing was known for his musical ability.

阿炳的父亲教他演奏许多乐器，如鼓、笛子和二胡，17岁时，阿炳就因他的音乐才能而闻名。

To Kevin's surprise, Grandpa smiled, "Instruments become part of you when you play them a lot."

令凯文惊讶的是，爷爷微笑着说：“当你经常演奏这些乐器时，它们就成了你的一部分。”

I play four instruments, all self-taught.

我会四种乐器，都是无师自通。

But I didn't play any instruments and I didn't have a room big enough to collect anything.

但是我不弹奏任何乐器，而且我没有足够大的房间来收藏任何东西。

And string players have more of their sensory cortices devoted to their fingers than do those who don't play the instruments.

弦乐演奏者要比不会这种乐器的人有更多专属于他们手指的感觉皮质。