Rather, the pauses are inserted by your mind as you already know where one word begins and another one ends.

相反,停顿只是由你的心理活动插入的,因为你已经知道了一个单词的开始,与另一个单词的结束在什么地方

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If you were to just talk into an oscilloscope that measured your sound vibrations, there are no pauses between the words.

如果你对着,测量声震的示波器讲话,你会发现在单词间并没有停顿

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Children come into the world without knowing any specific language and so they have to learn pauses.

儿童出生时并不知道任何特定的语言,因此他们需要学会停顿

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