get a word in

基本解釋

Jean didn't let me get a word in edgewise.
珍不讓我有插話的機會。
He talked on and on and nobody else could get a word in edgeways.
他說個沒完，別人半句話也插不進。
《新英漢大辭典》
He just can't stop talking， and nobody else has a chance to get a word in the conversation.
他說話的時候就是停不下來，在談話的過程中，沒有任何人插得進嘴。

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.
它為我們做了這些事情，這樣我們就可以,通過第一個字節(jié)的地址,它還可以通過包含一個特殊的值,來保證在哪里停止，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，不管怎樣，我們分配四個字節(jié),因為我們在末端需要一個額外的字節(jié),來保存這個特殊的標志值--反斜杠。
哈佛公開課 - 計算機科學(xué)課程節(jié)選

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