时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:2019年VOA慢速英语(二)月


英语课

 


In English, syllable 1 stress is hugely important for communication. The word “stress” here means saying part of a word louder and holding the sound a little longer than other parts.


For example: movie. I said MO- a little louder and longer than -vie. If I had said, mo-VIE, people probably would have had no idea what I was saying.


In today’s Ask a Teacher, we will tell you some rules of English word stress, a request from our reader Larissa.


Answer:


Hello Larissa,


Thanks for asking! The good news is that English has a few word stress rules. The bad news is that English also breaks those rules from time to time. Still, the rules can act as useful guides.


Before we start, you need to be familiar with syllable counting. If you are not, visit our Ask a Teacher page and read “How to Count Syllables 2.”


For today, we will focus on two-syllable words.


Ok, let’s begin.


1. Most two-syllable nouns and adjectives stress the first syllable. Listen to some examples. The word meaning is not important:


quiet


enzyme 3


coffee


playdate


fussy 4


table


Some exceptions include “asleep” “machine” and “hotel,” which stress the second syllable. But don’t try to memorize exceptions. You will get to know them from exposure and practice.


2. Two-syllable words that end in -er or -en almost always stress the first syllable, too. It does not matter whether the words are nouns, verbs or adjectives. Have a listen:?


smarter


father


writer


listen


open


spoken


3. Most two-syllable verbs and prepositions stress the second syllable. Take a listen:


within


enjoy


involve


around


escape


beneath


Again, there are some exceptions, like the verbs “follow” and “cancel.”


4. Here’s where it gets a little tricky 5: Some English words can be nouns or verbs, depending on stress. With stress on the first syllable, the following words act as nouns. And on the second, they act as verbs:


record - record


present - present


produce - produce


suspect - suspect


desert - desert


Again, there are exceptions. Some two-syllable words act as nouns or verbs with no change in stress, like “answer,” “promise,” “visit” and “reply.”


All in all, listening and speaking are the best ways to get comfortable with word stress in English. In time, your ear will tell you what sounds correct.


And that’s Ask a Teacher.


I’m Alice Bryant.


Words in This Story


syllable – n. any one of the parts into which a word is naturally divided when it is pronounced


familiar – adj. easy for you to recognize because you have seen, heard or experienced it many times in the past


practice – v. to do something again and again in order to become better at it


comfortable – adj. causing no worries, difficulty, or uncertainty



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。
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
n.酵素,酶
  • Above a certain temperature,the enzyme molecule will become unfolded.超过一定温度,酶分子将会展开。
  • An enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots.能溶解血凝块中的纤维的酶。
adj.为琐事担忧的,过分装饰的,爱挑剔的
  • He is fussy about the way his food's cooked.他过分计较食物的烹调。
  • The little girl dislikes her fussy parents.小女孩讨厌她那过分操心的父母。
adj.狡猾的,奸诈的;(工作等)棘手的,微妙的
  • I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手,你能帮我吗?
  • He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题,只做了个笼统的表述。
学英语单词
adelogenic
angiosclerotic myasthenia
applictions
appointings
axial force of rail
baseball-related
be alive to
block cipher system
burgeri
cavenger jig
celling rate
cheongsam
chive
chrome bleaching
chrysanthemaxenthin
closing error in coordinate increment
coleosporium clematidis barclay
contact loss
continuous-wave interference
cooperative enterprises
data collection facility
dessert fork
dysluite
electrophoresis force
Epist.
erratic flow
event horizon
excitancy
fillmass chute
flat-platform body
floor-operated crane
goldchip
Gui Xian
half a loaf is better than none
harry
heat in the exterior
hidden reserve
hydrochlorothiazides
i-telle
Indigofera muliensis
informatical
information quantity
itbs
jacky 2,Jacky
kickiest
Kivitoo
lanting
law of independent assortment
lionskin
loading sequence
make system
mohnyins
morpholinobiguanide
moveout correction
myelosclerotic
naturalistic conception of definitions
Neocinnamomum
New Forest pony
non-deterministic space complexity
non-self-luminous object
option buyer
patchlike
peak magnetizing force
phagostatin
phase-shifter
physical loss or damage
pole-plate
powersafes
pump discharge manifold
pushing rod jack
Pyrenaria
quaking puddings
rackingly
radar equipment feeding
residual cake valve
resistivity sounding configuration
Riccitensor
sea monkeys
secondary acid
sensitive plant
separate regenerative chamber
severe heat stroke
short land memo
ssfa
stress-relaxation modulus
sualci venosi
suckled
take care tonight
tender chafing block
thymolytic
timed indefinite shipment
top needle
transition process
transparence diaphaneity
undefeatableness
unionless
unit of budget
valvulotomies
without much further ado
WSBA
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