时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:手把手教你学口语


英语课

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on sound linking.


When certain sounds are linked together, the resulting sound is merely the combination of the two original sounds. For example, “one apple” is pronounced “one-napple”, and “four apples” is pronounced “four-rapples”. However, when other sounds are linked, there’s a blending of the sounds. The sounds are linked smoothly 1 without any break. For example, “two apples” are pronounced as if there’s an additional “w” sound “w” in between the words. “two apples”, “two apples”. And when the words “three” and “apple” are linked, it sounds as if there were an additional “y”sound “i” between the words. “three apples”, “three apples”, “three apples”. This is because the sounds between the words are linked smoothly without any break. “two-w-apples”, not “two” “apples”. “three-i-apples”, not “three apples.” Pay careful attention how sounds are blended together.


Another good example is how words ending in a “t” or “d” sound “t” or “d” are linked to words beginning with a “y” sound “j”. For example, “Did you do it?” becomes “Did-you do it?” “Would you do it?” becomes “would-you do it?” Notice how together “did” “you” becomes “Did-you” and “would” “you” becomes “would-you”, and “do” “it” becomes “do-it”. Listen again as I give more examples. “Did you do it?” “Did you do it?” “Would you do it?” “Would you do it?” “Should you do it?” “Should you do it?” “Could you do it?” “Could you do it?”


And also notice when a word ending in the “t” sound “t” is followed by a word beginning in a “y” sound “j”, you get the sound “t∫”. For example, “Can’t you do it?” “Can’t you do it?” “Didn’t you do it?” “Didn’t you do it?” “Couldn’t you do it?” “Couldn’t you do it?” “Shouldn’t you do it?” “Shouldn’t you do it?” “Wouldn’t you do it?” “Wouldn’t you do it?” “It’s nice to meet you.” “It’s nice to meet you.”


Today’s tip is to pay careful attention to how words are blended together, and how the resulting sound is often very different from the original sounds. This has been today’s daily tip. Tune 2 in tomorrow for another tip on learning English.



1 smoothly
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
2 tune
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
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abortiva variola
acesulfame potassium
acid-intoxication
acromantis formosana
acufilopressure
anomala ochii
argumenta
azimuth disk
bariumism
blow-out preventer
boiler gasket
bring to bearing
business concentration
cable line buoyancy
campmor
cathodochromic material
cipher block
coccygis
computer cartographic generalization
conformance test
coumadin
cue circuit
curved-rib truss
deferred serial bond
deformation crack
engine fire control computer
ergotist
f. o.
familial hypo-beta-lipoproteinemia
family income plan
field direct shear test
finite state network
flare-out
freezedryer
geopoliticians
gnawed
great-grandchild
grid-to-cathode voltage
Halhgol
halka
ham risotto
Herbartian psychology
horn-lens
hylotheism
igniter pawl
inclinator dorsalis muscle
isoglobotriose
Ithuriel's spear
K capture
lake urmias
lateral quality
let sb loose
lirk
long divisions
Magudu
metameride
metromorphic hybrid
minimarkets
miscible system partially
nonlinear transmittance
ordnary
out line feed
out-of range
Paramoebidae
phonemicization
pimpmobiles
Pisgah
porous anion exchanger
pressure sensing device
pull ... to pieces
quartz-iodine
radio-frequency
range scale
reaggregates
reattempting
research and development sales ratio
rip on
rubber spacer
seed nuclei
seize at a straws
sensitomete
shear phonon
sodium benzyl penicillinate
spin-selection rule
spinning crop
stirrer (agitator)
super-users
tallol
then-like
toolmaker's vise
topocyte
tractablest
undertaxing
us sag
Vansittart
vector state algorithm
Veigaia
vertical belt variety sander
yellow archangel
yuanqu