Looking at moving advertisements must be better than listening to Muzak– that's non-stop, pre-recorded – usually boring - music?

看动态广告一定比米尤扎克音乐好多了，穆扎克音乐是指那种录制重复播放很烦人背景音乐。

He worried that Muzak would prevent people from hearing silence altogether.

他担心 Muzak 会阻止人们到寂静。

For the better part of the 20th century, Muzak was piped into stores and factories.

在 20 世纪大部分时间里，Muzak 被输送到商店和工厂。

Peddlers of Muzak claimed it could improve customers' moods and increase employees productivity.

Muzak 小贩声称它可改善顾客情绪并提高员工工作效率。

You can be a customer yourself, buying your company's products, ringing your own helplines and enduring the same teeth-grinding muzak.

您可成为客户，购买您公司产品，拨打您求助热线并忍受相同磨牙音乐。

Muzak supposedly worked by arranging 15-minute blocks of songs that gradually increased in tempo and energy.

Muzak 据说是通过编排 15 分钟歌曲块来工作，这些歌曲节奏和能量逐渐增加。

It was like the air we breathed, or the muzak floating around as we prowled the mall, ever-present and hardly worth remarking upon.

这就像我们呼吸空气，或者我们逛商场时音乐，无时无刻不在，几乎不值得一提。

John Cage mentioned that he wanted to write a four-and-a-half-minute-long piece of silence and sell it to the Muzak company.

约翰·凯奇 (John Cage) 写下《4 分 33 秒》四年前， 他提到想写一段四分半钟无声片段， 然后卖给 Muzak 公司。

Songs such as “I Will Always Love You”, “I'm Every Woman” and “One Moment in Time” so long in the charts and in wine-bar Muzak that they seemed to get into the bloodstream of the world.

歌曲诸如“我将永远爱你”， “我也如普通女人”和 “在那一刻”在排行榜及白葡萄酒吧助兴音乐中占据了如此之长时间，至于这些歌曲就好像融入了世血液之中。