标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 Track 50
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Follow-up Diagnostic Analysis CD 3 Track 50
After three to six months, you're ready for the follow-up analysis. If you're studying on your own, please contact toll-free (800) 457-4255 or www.americanaccent.com for a referral to a qualified telephone analyst 1. The diagnostic analysis is designed toevaluate your current speech patterns to let you know where your accent is standard and nonstandard.
Think the United Auto 2 Workers can beat Caterpillar 3 Inc. in their bitter contract battle? Before placing your bets, talk to Paul Branan, who can't wait to cross the picket 4 line at Caterpillar's factory in East Peoria. Branan, recently laid off by a rubber-parts plant where he earned base pay of $6.30 an hour, lives one block from a heavily picketed 5 gate at the Cat complex. Now he's applying to replace one of 12,600 workers who have been on strike for the past five months. "Seventeen dollars an hour and they don't want to work?" asks Branan. "I don't want totake another guy's job,but I'm hurting, too."
Chapters 1-6 Review and Expansion
In the first six chapters of the American Accent Training program, we covered the concepts that form the basis of American speech—intonation, word groups, the staircase, and liaisons 6, or word connections. We also discussed some key sounds, such as [æ], [ä], and [ə] (Cat? Caught? Cut?), the El, the American T, and the American R. Let's briefly 7 review each item.
Intonation
You've learned some of the reasons for changing the pitch (or saying a word louder or even streeetching it out) of some words in a sentence.
1. To introduce new information (nouns)
2. To offer an opinion
3. To contrast two or more elements
4. To indicate the use of the negative contraction 8 can't
Miscellaneous Reminders 9 of Intonation
When you have a verb/preposition combination, the stress usually goes on the preposition: pick up, put down, fall in, and so on. Otherwise, prepositions are placed in the valleys of your intonation. It's f'r you., They're fr'm LA.
When you have initials, the stress goes on the last letter: IBM, PO Box, ASAP, IOU, and so on.
Liaisons and Glides
Through liaisons, you learned about voiced and unvoiced consonants—where they are located in the mouth and which sounds are likely to attach to a following one. You were also introduced to glides.
The American T
T is T, a clear popped sound, when it is at the top of the staircase.
The El
The El is closely connected with the schwa. Yourtongue drops down in back as if it were going to say uh, but the tip curls up and attaches to the top of the mouth, which requires a strong movement of the tip of the tongue. The air comes out around the sides of the tongue and the sound is held for slightly longer than you'd think.
The American R
The main difference between a consonant 10 and a vowel 11 is that witha consonant there is contact at some point in your mouth. It might be the lips, P; the tongue tip, N; or the throat, G. Like a vowel, however, the R doesn't touch anywhere. It is similar to a schwa, but yourtongue curls back in a retroflex movement and produces a sound deep in the throat. The tongue doesn't touch the top of the mouth. Another way to approach it is toput your tongue in position for ee, and then slide straight back to eeer. Some people are more comfortable collapsing 12 their tongue back, like an accordion 13 instead of curling it. It doesn't make any difference in the sound, so do whichever you prefer.
Application Exercises
Now you need to use the techniques you've learned so far and tomake the transference to your everyday speech. In the beginning, the process is very slow and analytical 14, but as you do it over and over again, it becomes natural and unconscious. The exercises presented here will show you how. For example, take any phrase that may catch your ear during a conversation—because it is unfamiliar, or for whatever other reason—and work it though the practice sequence used in Review Exercise 1.
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- A butterfly is produced by metamorphosis from a caterpillar.蝴蝶是由毛虫脱胎变成的。
- A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶。
- They marched to the factory and formed a picket.他们向工厂前进,并组成了纠察队。
- Some of the union members did not want to picket.工会的一些会员不想担任罢工纠察员。
- They picketed the restaurant. 他们在饭馆外设置纠察。
- Humboldt riotously picketed Von Trenk but the play was a hit. 尽管洪堡肆意破坏《冯·特伦克》的上演,然而这个剧还是轰动一时。
- She embarked on a series of sexual liaisons with society figures. 她开始接二连三地与社会名流有染。 来自辞典例句
- One of Wentworth's favorite movies is Dangerous Liaisons. went最喜欢的电影之一是《危险关系》。 来自互联网
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
- The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。
- The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。
- The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
- The strike has delayed the mailing of tax reminders. 罢工耽搁了催税单的投寄。
- The quality of this suit isn't quite consonant with its price.这套衣服的质量和价钱不相称。
- These are common consonant clusters at the beginning of words.这些单词的开头有相同辅音组合。
- 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。
- Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
- The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。
- The accordion music in the film isn't very beautiful.这部影片中的手风琴音乐不是很好。
- The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.这手风琴的乐声让我回忆起了我的少年时代。
- I have an analytical approach to every survey.对每项调查我都采用分析方法。
- As a result,analytical data obtained by analysts were often in disagreement.结果各个分析家所得的分析数据常常不一致。