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

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Look at line number four, which is so clearly -- simply by looking at this, you can tell it's deficient in the number of syllables.

看第四行，显而易见--单单看一眼,就能看出它的音节数不够。

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Let's see if we can't identify those syllables that we all are going to agree on.

让我们看看我们是否不能认出那些音节,那些我们达成共识的音节。

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Feet, of course, has a lot of meanings, and Milton's poetic feet, the material of the verse written in six and eight and ten syllables in this poem, are also in 1634 printless -- they're unpublished.

双脚，当然有很多意义，而弥尔顿富有诗意的双脚,这首六，八，十音节的诗，在1634年也是不留痕迹的--因为那时候还没有出版。

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There are only six syllables here rather than the conventional ten.

这句只有6个音节，正规的应该是10个。

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Poetry is not interested in expert debate at all, and it converts the big spectrum of possible degrees of accent into those two simple categories: stressed and unstressed syllables.

诗是从不在乎这样专业的争议的，它将涵盖很多不同程度的重音的音谱,简单分成两种：,重音和非重音节。

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