staccato

His thinking, he said, has taken on a “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages of text from many sources online.

他的思想，他说道，已经呈现出一种“断奏”的特性了，这反映为他在线上众多资源中，常常快速浏览短小文章段落的方式上。

While you may not be able to hear the heartbeat through a sonogram or Doppler for a few weeks yet when you finally do the rapid staccato beats will be concrete evidence of the life inside you.

在几周内，你可能还不能够通过声波图或者多普勒超声听到婴儿的心跳，但当你最终听到时，那快速的断断续续的节奏巩固你身体里有个小生命的证据。