In the barn, I found a drum, which used to be part of an old tape-recorder. It's like a guitar, but it has four strings.
在谷仓里，我发现了一面鼓。它之前是旧收音机上的部件，像一把吉他，但只有四根弦。
2
By the end of the first semester, I was still terribly confused about the four tones of spoken Chinese, and the voices from the tape were simply a din.
第一学期末，我还是对中文四声的发音摸不着头脑，磁带里中文对话从头到尾都是哇啦哇啦。
3
He completes the first three or four drafts by hand, sometimes literally cutting and pasting passages and whole chapters with scissors and tape.