1. For weeks, he sat at his table every day and spent an hour or two trying a great number of combinations but he arrived at no result.
    一连几个星期，他每天伏案工作，花上一、两个小时尝试着大量的组合，但毫无结果。

2. Fortunately, for Beethoven and for us, the next day in the same carriage, the tune returned to him and he captured it in writing.
    "好在当贝多芬第二天乘坐同一辆马车时，那首曲子又回到了他的脑子里，于是他把它记录了下来，这对于贝多芬和我们都可谓是一件幸事。