stutter step

基本解释

"Offering a handful of classes online is a really nice attempt, but it just seems late and a stutter step, " he says.
他说：“提供一些在线课程真的是一种非常好的努力，但是它看起来有点晚并且步履蹒跚。
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Take a little deep breath and say it by step by step, if you think you're going to stutter then make a distraction instead such as clearing your throat.
如果你觉得快要结巴了，试着分散注意力，清一清嗓门或是其他。所有你要做的只是缓一下，放慢速度，镇定镇定，一步一步地展开，然后慢慢地按照你的意愿加快速度。
While we discussed our exotic new family constellations (I have six brothers, three sisters — two real, four half, three step), they were rather left out and would stutter: “Mine are still together.
每当我们谈论起自己多样化的新家庭的星座时（我有六个兄弟，三个姐妹——其中两个亲生，四个同父异母或同母异父，三个是继父母的），他们宁愿被人忽视，并会结巴的说：“我们的父母仍然在一起。

Saying "Together, America can do better" is a bit like saying "Together, the North won the Civil War"— you know what it's supposed to mean, but you have to do a little mental stutter-step to get there.
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