Question

这句英语怎么翻译

If we listen to any of these texts — to any text, in fact — in its spoken form we will hear continuous melody with rising and falling pitch, and with certain moments of prominence marked by either relatively rapid pitch changes or extended pitch intervals. These moments of prominence define a snatch of melody — a melodic unit, or line。
这句怎么翻好，这是语言学的内容，那个snatch是啥

Answer 1

如果我们听任何一种文本——事实上任何文本——在它的口语形式中，我们将听到不断上升和下降的音调的连续旋律，并且在某些时刻的突出表现为相对快速的音调变化或延长的音高间隔。这些突出的时刻定义了一段旋律——一个旋律的单元，或线条。
snatch表示很小的数量，一段。

Answer 2

and red with haste, a figure of f