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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We don't find this out until we get to the next line, that the "fruit" at the end of the line is only a kind of temporary resting place.

直到下一句我们才发现“,这句末的“果子“只是暂时的停顿。

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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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Rather, you all sounded like, "Blublublublublub" without any pauses because I don't know your languages.

相反,你们都觉得这句话听起来像,"啦啦啦",并未感觉得到任何的停顿,因为我并不懂你的语言

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And you-- And now a French speaker, of course, hears "Je ne sais pas."

当然,讲法语的人听到"我不知道"时,是会感觉到停顿的

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Now that--If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words you're hearing a pause.

如果你只接触过英语,那么刚才的问题就看上去非常奇怪了,因为你在听我讲话,而你会在我所说的单词之间听到一个停顿

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