The shutdown is bad news for the recession-hit country partly because it will lose a source of cheap electricity and be forced to import more expensive energy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

So what syncopation is is simply the insertion of an impulse, a "Hit" If you will, at a metrical place that we do not expect it to be.

所以切分音就是插入的一个冲动,也可以说是一次"撞击",出现在一个我们意料之外的位置

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Conference organizer, Dr.Greg Pappas of the American non-governmental organization,or NGO, called Interaction says that while it is too early to tell whether the current outbreak will turn into a global pandemic, poorer countries in particular need to be prepared for the day when one does hit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28