Stuttering causes sufferers to get stuck repeating or prolonging sounds, syllables or words that interrupt the normal flow of speech.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

The relation between the speech sounds it's like the relation, as I'm saying, between the boy and the birches.

语言韵律和,就像这种关系，像我说的，像孩子和桦树的关系一样。

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Well, that's a version of what we hear in the poem when we hear the forms of strained relation between Frost's dynamic speech sounds and the metrical pattern of his writing.

这是我们从这首诗中领略到的一种版本,当我们感受到这种紧张的关系,在弗罗斯特的动态的语言音律,和他写作的韵律结构之间。

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While other species," he notes, "may have voice, may have sounds and be able to distinguish pleasure and pain, Logos speech"--logos is his word for it.

他注明，“虽然其它动物也许能发声,也许有音调能区分出愉悦与痛苦，“辩论能力“或他所用的词汇。

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