Associating a cue (a metronome) with a reward (food) happens as follows.

将信号（节拍器）与奖励（食物）相关联的过程如下。

He added, the " metronome gives us the best opportunity to do so."

他补充说，“节拍器给了我们这样做的最好机会。”

Many conductors noted Beethoven's loss of hearing as a reason to ignore his metronome markings.

许多指挥家指出，贝多芬的听力丧失是他忽视节拍器标记的一个原因。

The telegraph poles shifted by with the click of a metronome.

随着节拍器的咔嗒声， 电线杆移动了。

Use the thumping of your heart as a metronome.

用心跳来打拍子。

In twelfth grade, he built an electronic metronome—one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class—and realized it sounded like a bomb.

高中四年级的时候，他做了一个电子节拍器——音乐教室里用来打拍子的、会发出“滴答”声的装置。然后他意识到“滴答”声听上去很像是炸弹定时器的声音。

He said, " There are powerful arguments on both sides. I am not against performing Beethoven at the speeds suggested by the metronome."

“双方都有强有力的论据。我并不反对以节拍器建议的速度演奏贝多芬的交响乐。”

In a famous experiment, Ivan Pavlov showed that dogs can be taught to salivate at the tick of a metronome or the sound of a harmonium.

伊万·巴甫洛夫进行的一项著名实验证明，通过学习，狗会因为节拍器的滴答声或铃声流口水。

The toy man had a broken nose slanted to the left: an offbeat metronome caught forever at the start of an upward stroke.

玩具人的鼻子骨折了，向左倾斜：一个另类的节拍器永远停在向上行程的开始。

He swung his right arm upward to shake Harry's hand, but at the last moment seemed unable to face it, and merely closed his fist and began swinging it backward and forward like a metronome.

他伸出右臂靠近哈利的手，但是最后一刻似乎有些畏缩，然后合上拳头前后挥了两下，像个节拍器一样。