V-T If an activity or situation is punctuated by particular things, it is interrupted by them at intervals. 不时打断 [书面] [usu passive]
The game was punctuated by a series of injuries.
那场比赛因不时有人受伤而中断。
This year's hunt in the Southern Ocean has been punctuated by violent clashes between the Japanese fleet and radical conservationists.
VOA: standard.2010.02.20
So it's not a continuum of energy that we can have, it's only these punctuated points of energy that are possible.
我们得到的不是一个连续的能量,而是一些分立的可能的能量值。
Any frequency can't have an energy, you have to -- you don't have a continuum of frequencies that are of a certain energy, it's actually punctuated into these packets that are called photons.
任何频率不能有个能量,你必须要-对某一个能量上,你不会有连续的频率,光子实际上分立的存在。
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