When they are pronounced, no pause of phone before them, and no fixed accent in themselves.

发音时前面不能出现语音的停顿，而且本身没有固定的重音。

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Moreover, at the gateway of every reading lesson stood sentinel an array of words, with separated syllables, and forbidding accent marks like fixed bayonets, barring the way to the infant mind.

在每一课文的入口，都排列着一队音节分开的生字的哨兵，禁止通行的重音符号就像一把把瞄准的刺刀，阻挡了小孩的心的进入通道。

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In a strong French accent he told the swells he hailed from the little-known Gallic branch of the famously fixed family whose members have graced every Forbes 400 list since its 1982 inception.

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