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


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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
acid proteases
aerial cable line
air handling equipment
ambient-temperature compensation
assenter
autoinhibiting
automatic chute
beat sb hollow
boron p-tolyl difluoride
buttterworthing
calson
canacids
capsuler
carrier suppression system
cast urea-formaldehyde plastic
cattaro (kotor)
celadon with brown mottles
ckii
classlessly
conical net
conjugate depth
consolidated slow test
constant-volume thermometer
currentest
determination of patentability
digital data transmission system
directrix of conic
El Jadida, Wilaya
El Saucejo
electro-therapeutic display of blunt needle
eohippus
Ethatab
flappier
free from disease
fruit gardening
fuel mineral
geometric solution
glacier buttercup
Glycerol-1-phosphatase
goksel
governance
Green Line
Haemopis sanguisuga
half-tone information
Hardyan
hay varieties
hip-cat
Homochloreyclizine
intensity of wave pressure
interpretatio
knowledge engineer
Languas speciosa
leave function
lightbox
loading berm
magazine tool holder
main reasons
Make directory
Mary Of Orange
masked off
moment of precession
oil proof test
oneironaut
oversend
painted frog
Pardew
pass fish eyes for pearls
Peflate
physical system time
PID tuning
production control function
Prosiphneus
Putyatina, Ostrov
Pyrogelite
raisin pudding
reche
recovery characteristic
Robinson's disease
RQLIQ
Ruoti
scale error card
scavia
second-hand witness
semicarbazide hydrochloride
small hole electrospark grinding
static classes
statistiquement
stirrest
Styphnolobium japonicum
sulphide barrier
synchondroses petrooccipitalis
Temangan
threepeated
tittler
unemploy
velocity-focussing mass-spectrograph
virtual pair
visualisings
wide-angle photograph
zipless