get in a word

基本解释

He had managed me before I could get in a word.
我還沒來得及插話他已經給我量好了尺寸。
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Before I could get in a word, he had measured me.
不等我插話，他就給我量好了尺寸。
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Before I could get in a word, the tailor had measured me.
我還沒有來得及插話，裁縫已給我量好了尺寸。

So it does that for us so that you can get away with just knowing the address of the first byte and it will make sure that you know when to stop by including the special value so, in fact, get the string if you type in a three-letter word, we allocate four bytes no matter what because we need an additional byte 0 for this special sentinel value back slash zero at the very end.
它爲我們做了這些事情，這樣我們就可以,通過第一個字節的地址,它還可以通過包含一個特殊的值,來保証在哪裡停止，如果你輸入了一個三個字母的單詞,就可以獲得那個字符串，不琯怎樣，我們分配四個字節,因爲我們在末耑需要一個額外的字節,來保存這個特殊的標志值--反斜杠。
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Faneuil couldn't get in a word edgewise, he said.
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