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

看动态广告一定比听米尤扎克音乐好多了，穆扎克音乐是指那种录制的重复播放的很烦人的背景音乐。

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

他担心 Muzak 会阻止人们完全听到寂静。

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

在 20 世纪的大部分时间里，Muzak 被输送到商店和工厂。

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

Muzak 的小贩声称它可以改善顾客的情绪并提高员工的工作效率。

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

您可以自己成为客户，购买您公司的产品，拨打您自己的求助热线并忍受相同的磨牙音乐。

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 分钟的歌曲块来工作的，这些歌曲的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.

这就像我们呼吸的空气，或者我们逛商场时的音乐，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》的四年前， 他提到自己想写一段四分半钟的无声片段， 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”在排行榜以及白葡萄酒吧的助兴音乐中占据了如此之长的时间，以至于这些歌曲就好像融入了世的血液之中。