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When you hear Western music, you generally get the emotional tone. A major key is happy. A minor one? That’s sad.
当你听到西方音乐时，通常你可以感受到它们的情感色彩。大调表示快乐。小调呢？是悲伤。
And spoken voices reflect this tonality. Here’s someone sounding positive: “I don’t know who made this cake but it is fantastic!” And down on his luck: “The papers finalizing the divorce came today.”
人们说话的腔调也具有这个特点。这是一个兴奋的声音：“我不知道谁做的这个蛋糕，但它太棒了！”这是一个低沉的声音：“确定离婚的文件今天下来了。”
The researchers wanted to know: are these sounds international? So they turned to classical music from southern India. Here’s one that represents joy. Another displays grief and sadness. As for the spoken word, I bet you can tell the positive speaker from the negative one.
研究人员想知道，这种特点是否具有国际性？于是，他们把目光转向了印度南部的古典音乐。这是一段代表喜悦的音乐（播放音乐），而这一段是代表痛苦和悲伤的音乐（播放音乐）。至于她们所说的话，我敢打赌，你可以分出哪个是积极的说话者（女人的说话声），哪个是消沉的说话者（女人的说话声）。
The researchers analyzed music and 20 native Tamil and American English speakers for a variety of sound and tone parameters. The authors say that certain emotional tones seem to be cross-cultural, and that music mimics voice. The research was published in the journal Public Library of Science One.
研究人员分析了音乐和20种当地泰米尔语以及美语的各种声音和音色参数。研究人员称，某些情感色彩似乎具有跨文化性，而且音乐的情感色彩和声音的情感色彩具有相似性。这项研究结果发表在《科学公共图书馆》杂志上。
So we may often be able to understand the moods of a culture in music and even in speech – without understanding a word.
所以我们经常在甚至都不需要理解其中涵义的情况下，就可以领会到音乐和言论中所渲染的情绪。
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