时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD3


英语课

 



Exercise 3-6: Reading the [ə] Sound      CD 3 Track 11 


When you read the following schwa paragraph, try clenching 1 your teeth the first time. It won't sound completely natural, but it will get rid of all of the excess lip and jaw 2 movement and force your tongue to work harder than usual. Remember that in speaking American English we don't move our lips much, and we talk though our teeth from far back in our throats. I'm going to read with my teeth clenched 3 together and you follow along, holding your teeth together.


What Must theSun Above Wonder About? 


Some pundits 4 proposed that thesun wonders unnecessarily about sundry 5 and assorted 6 conundrums 7. One cannot but speculate what can come of their proposal. It wasn't enough to trouble us,* but it was done so underhandedly that hundreds of sun lovers rushed tothe defense 8 of their beloved sun. None of this was relevant on Monday, however, when thesun burned up the entire country. *[ət wəzənənəf tətrəbələs]


* Pause the CD and read What Must the Sun Above Wonder About? twice. Try it once with your teeth clenched the first time and normally the second time.




1 clenching
v.紧握,抓紧,咬紧( clench的现在分词 )
  • I'll never get used to them, she thought, clenching her fists. 我永远也看不惯这些家伙,她握紧双拳,心里想。 来自飘(部分)
  • Clenching her lips, she nodded. 她紧闭着嘴唇,点点头。 来自辞典例句
2 jaw
n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训
  • He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
  • A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。
3 clenched
v.紧握,抓紧,咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
  • She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上,以掩饰其颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 pundits
n.某一学科的权威,专家( pundit的名词复数 )
  • The pundits disagree on the best way of dealing with the problem. 如何妥善处理这一问题,专家众说纷纭。 来自辞典例句
  • That did not stop Chinese pundits from making a fuss over it. 这并没有阻止中国的博学之士对此大惊小怪。 来自互联网
5 sundry
adj.各式各样的,种种的
  • This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.这种药膏可用来治各种轻伤。
  • We can see the rich man on sundry occasions.我们能在各种场合见到那个富豪。
6 assorted
adj.各种各样的,各色俱备的
  • There's a bag of assorted sweets on the table.桌子上有一袋什锦糖果。
  • He has always assorted with men of his age.他总是与和他年令相仿的人交往。
7 conundrums
n.谜,猜不透的难题,难答的问题( conundrum的名词复数 )
  • After all the conundrums of Hungary, the second Turkish Grand Prix promises much. 继匈牙利站所有猜不透的事之后,第二届土耳其大奖赛许诺了太多。 来自互联网
  • I see conundrums, dilemmas, quandaries, impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out. 眼看问题经纬万端,进退两难、入困境,死路一条,盘根错节的命定可能性,但找不到明显的出路。 来自互联网
8 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
学英语单词
a FILF
A-betalipoproteinemia
access control section
AE (air ejector)
alloy steel casting
Altaic
anisotrophy
ash-greiest
Asserac
asymmetrical source/drain
autoperfusion
Barcǎu(Berettyó)
Baume
bebinning character
body flanks
braylin
btuss
coefficient of spherical aberration
Companies Ordinance
complicites
controlled target boat
creusa
dyke phase
electrochemic(al)
electromagnetic test for coating
emergency steering gear
Europa-1
f-a-d
fine folks
fire support coordination center
five-second delay
five-times
ganna
geocells
Georgeville
goldblatt
groupthinkers
hand-lifting
haplophenotypic
hard grease
HB-HP
heartbreak law
heterogen
hualage allowance
immolate
Kalmyck
keeps away
kelloggs
kidbies
Kwiksave
LIRBM
long lived isotope
made no scruples to do
mass-area ratio
medical decompression tank
medicolegal expert
motional feed back
novation
off-and-on
off-size material
pass-parole
Peracarpa
phase shifting capacitor
pine knots
polishing apparatus
propagation agent dispatcher
Qadamgāh
quineans
ragequitted
Rana catesbeiana
rd-floor
refinisher
Reineckia
relaying voltage transformer
reverberant unit
Salix spodiophylla
sap-sucking
scale factor potentiometer
scolymus hispanicuss
sell ice to Eskimos
seocalcitol
shading-pole type relay
shrinkage glaze
sperm-rich fraction
sphenozygomatic suture
stomach linings
svs-s
switched prediction
tadjikistan
tapist
to cherish a viper in one's bosom
tritetrabdella taiwana
typewriter console
typical line
unbuggy
vamin N solution
wave direction meter
what for?
winamp
wind-shaped stone
with handkerchief in one hand and sword in the other
wobbulator