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 stressed and unstressed syllables 2.


Every English word has more than one syllable 1, and every complete sentence has at least one stressed syllable.


A stressed syllable is pronounced more prominently than surrounding syllables. Simply put, we say it louder and we lengthen 3 the vowel 4 sound. Unstressed syllables are just the opposite. They are not as loud and the vowel sound is usually reduced. Vowel sounds are most often reduced to “э”or to “ⅰ”. For example, in the word “purpose”, the first syllable is stressed, and the vowel of the second syllable can be reduced to either “э”as in “purpose” or “i” as in “purpose”. Let me give you a complete sentence. “I didn’t do it on purpose.” “I didn’t do it on purpose.” The following word has three syllables. Which syllable is stressed? “banana”. That’s right. The second syllable is stressed. Listen now for the lengthening 5 of the vowel in the stressed syllable. “bana-na”, “bana-na”. It’s very important to stress the proper syllable, to lengthen stressed syllables, and to reduce unstressed vowels 6. This is essential if you want to achieve a proper English rhythm. If every syllable is given equal stress and length, what you will sound like is a robot. “I didn’t do it on purpose.” “I didn’t do it on purpose.” Proper rhythm comes from stressing only certain syllables, and lengthening those syllables, while reducing the others.


Listen again to the example sentence, and notice how only certain syllables are stressed and lengthened 7. “I didn’t do it on purpose.”……


We will talk about how to figure out what syllables or words to stress at the sentence level in an upcoming program. But today’s tip is to make sure when you learn words of more than one syllable, you give special care to learning which syllable or syllables are stressed, and to remember to lengthen the vowels in those syllables.


This has been today’s daily tip on learning English. Tune 8 in tomorrow for another tip.



1 syllable
n.音节;vt.分音节
  • You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。
  • The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。
2 syllables
n.音节( syllable的名词复数 )
  • a word with two syllables 双音节单词
  • 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓,它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
3 lengthen
vt.使伸长,延长
  • He asked the tailor to lengthen his coat.他请裁缝把他的外衣放长些。
  • The teacher told her to lengthen her paper out.老师让她把论文加长。
4 vowel
n.元音;元音字母
  • A long vowel is a long sound as in the word"shoe ".长元音即如“shoe” 一词中的长音。
  • The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。
5 lengthening
(时间或空间)延长,伸长( lengthen的现在分词 ); 加长
  • The evening shadows were lengthening. 残阳下的影子越拉越长。
  • The shadows are lengthening for me. 我的影子越来越长了。 来自演讲部分
6 vowels
n.元音,元音字母( vowel的名词复数 )
  • Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Note the various sounds of vowels followed by r. 注意r跟随的各种元音的发音。 来自超越目标英语 第3册
7 lengthened
(时间或空间)延长,伸长( lengthen的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The afternoon shadows lengthened. 下午影子渐渐变长了。
  • He wanted to have his coat lengthened a bit. 他要把上衣放长一些。
8 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。
学英语单词
acid head
aimed precision
albinsim
alitrunk
anti-coagulant
arteriae malleolaris posterior medialis
as easy as falling of a log
assignment half-word
bachelorships
Bukundi
Buurhakaba
cement box
cereal grain processing
Chekhovian
chosenness
come to a conclusion
cumulation accumulation
damaged by hooks
depigmented
dexify
diquinoline
disto-occlusal angle
exercise metabolism
federal radiation council
fields of vision
flow riser
forbearers
fossil-fired superheater
frequency response error
gangue froth
Giraud, Chutes
govardhans
haemovores
hegman
hygienical evaluation
i-furn
in a good quarrel
in quick procession
interferometer manometer
interior
internal conversion
introduced plant
keep from the bottle
Kennedy Round of tariff reductions
left triangular ligament of liver
length of air gap
linaria vulgariss
loaminess
lord mayor's court in london
luminous test
Machiakow limestone
miraval
mold top half
multiplying punch
northern celadon
Oculist-in-charge
offsquare
old shell
order for eviction
Oryong
ospytalle
oxygen pitting
paleoxylological
passeri
Paz, R.da
peg-tooth drum
performatively
pneumatic gripping
Poa sphondylodes
poruwa
powerman margin
precision wire wound resistor
proliferative trichilemmoma
pulse regenerating circuit
purchases account
Quarnstedt
research team
rule of seven
Sarcina violacea
scanning angle
scar-faced
seepage lake
sees the light
sijina
slavnov taylor identity
spear-point
spur vein (or external thoracic vein)
squeezibility
subharmonic protector
the traffic will bear
tonneaux
torque command storage
translingual
Trepocid
troubleshooter
twin-tubes
ullyett
Ultramide
unbenefitted
urban line
veatchanol
wallon