get a word in

基本解释

Jean didn't let me get a word in edgewise.
珍不让我有插话的机会。
He talked on and on and nobody else could get a word in edgeways.
他说个没完，别人半句话也插不进。
《新英汉大辞典》
He just can't stop talking， and nobody else has a chance to get a word in the conversation.
他说话的时候就是停不下来，在谈话的过程中，没有任何人插得进嘴。

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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