get in a word

基本解释

He had managed me before I could get in a word.
我还没来得及插话他已经给我量好了尺寸。
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Before I could get in a word, he had measured me.
不等我插话，他就给我量好了尺寸。
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Before I could get in a word, the tailor had measured me.
我还没有来得及插话，裁缝已给我量好了尺寸。

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.
它为我们做了这些事情，这样我们就可以,通过第一个字节的地址,它还可以通过包含一个特殊的值,来保证在哪里停止，如果你输入了一个三个字母的单词,就可以获得那个字符串，不管怎样，我们分配四个字节,因为我们在末端需要一个额外的字节,来保存这个特殊的标志值--反斜杠。
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