时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD4


英语课

 


Chapter 7. Tee Aitch      CD 4 Track 10



I'd like you to consider words as rocks for a moment. When a rock first rolls into the ocean, it is sharp and well defined. After tumbling about for a few millennia 1, it becomes round and smooth. A word goes through a similar process. When it first rolls into English,it may have a lot of sharp, well-defined vowels 3 or consonants 5 in it, but after rolling off of a few million tongues, it becomes round and smooth. This smoothing process occurs when a tense vowel 2 becomes reduced and when an unvoiced consonant 4 becomes voiced. The most common words are the smoothest, the most reduced, the most often voiced. There are several very common words that are all voiced: this, that, the, those, them, they, their, there, then, than, though. The strong words such as thank, think, or thing, as well as long or unusual words such as thermometer or theologian, stay unvoiced.


The sound of the TH combination seems to exist only in English, Greek, and Castillian Spanish. Just as with most of the other consonants, there are two types—voiced and unvoiced. The voiced THis like a D, but instead of being in back of the teeth, it's 1/4 inch lower and forward, between the teeth. The unvoiced TH is like an S between the teeth. Mostpeople tend to replace the unvoiced TH with S or T and the voiced one with Z or D, so instead of thing, they say sing, or ting, and instead of that, they say zat or dat.


To pronounce TH correctly, think of a snake's tongue. You don't want to take a big relaxed tongue, throw it out of your mouth for a long distance and leave it out there for a long time. Make only a very quick, sharp little movement. Keep your tongue's tip very tense. It darts 6 out between your teeth and snaps back very quickly—thing, that, this. The tongue's position for the unvoiced TH is similar to that of S, but for TH the tongue is extended through the teeth, instead of hissing 7 behind the back of the teeth. The voiced TH is like a D except that the tongue is placed between the teeth, or even pressed behind the teeth. Now we're ready for some practice.




1 millennia
n.一千年,千禧年
  • For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews. 两千年来,异族通婚一直是犹太人的一大禁忌。
  • In the course of millennia, the dinosaurs died out. 在几千年的时间里,恐龙逐渐死绝了。
2 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。
3 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
4 consonant
n.辅音;adj.[音]符合的
  • 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。
5 consonants
n.辅音,子音( consonant的名词复数 );辅音字母
  • Consonants are frequently assimilated to neighboring consonants. 辅音往往被其邻近的辅音同化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
6 darts
n.掷飞镖游戏;飞镖( dart的名词复数 );急驰,飞奔v.投掷,投射( dart的第三人称单数 );向前冲,飞奔
  • His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece. 他将掷镖奖杯放在壁炉顶上最显著的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I never saw so many darts in a bodice! 我从没见过紧身胸衣上纳了这么多的缝褶! 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
accreditate
acrosomic system
Adderbury
Alpenrhein River
ass fuck
back in time
bank annuities
bedroom town
BIOSes
bur oaks
Camellia assamica
capillaropathy
cash surrender
cellomics
coded converter
congealation
cortiral
crankcase conditioning oil
cranked coil
cress green
deglobalized
Denison gauge
detail printing
Dublovice
Dunbaria rotundifolia
dynamic region area
embossed candle
endogenous development
Fanno line
fantad
femoral pulse
financial instruments
flying shore
forestry ranger
freshet period
fuck ya
group transfer
hexagon-headed bolt
historical-cost rules
Hoanh Mo
hypoelliptic operator
infrared locator
inspiratory resistance
is on the ball
Ivolândia
job sites
joint seam
Kerch
land-of-sight coverage
leading truck
leen
long-bodied type
maler kotla
mesophilic range
minimum separabile
moiff
monochromators
Morison
mulsannes
nonmedieval
o.e.d
Orepuki
other day evening
outer waterway
overqualifications
phelp
Pitkyarantskiy Rayon
pogroist
political contribution
pool halls
porous microbeads support
position independent program
post office network list
premonstrations
produce a war
pyramidal decussation
rainfall intensity frequency curve
raynard
re-collect
retinoblastoma protein
roll crushing mill
seasonal arima models
semi-sentence
spring grinding machine
spud for anti-slip
takrouri
Tarenna acutisepala
tenth-normal
threewheeler
to need
toleranced taper method
triple correlation coefficient
uncomparatively
unpermeable seam
url submission
value of re-export
villanella
Volkmann's paralysis
watch yourself
Windows Registry
wipe one's boots on
zuni icosahedron