时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:公寓伙伴


英语课

本单元是关于烧烤野餐后的对话


Michal: Morning everyone. What a great barbeque yesterday! Coffee and biscuits Alice?
Alice: Oh no, I feel dreadful. I was throwing up all night long!
Tim: One too many cocktails 1?
Alice: No! I hardly touched a drop. One minute I was having a ball ...
Helen: Getting chatted up more like!
Alice: Yeah, I saw a completely different side to Paul.
Michal: Who?
Alice: Doctor Laver.
All: Oooh!
Alice: Oh don't! Give me a break!
Tim: So, was it the good doctor who made you ill?
Alice: No, it must've been something I ate.
Helen: But we all ate the same things.
Michal: It looked gorgeous, but I didn't have any of the salmon 2. Did you?
Helen: No.
Tim: No.
Alice: Yes....oh, no!


Vocabulary (词汇):

to throw up (呕吐):
to be physically 3 sick

to hardly touch a drop (几乎滴酒不沾):
to not drink much alcohol

to chat up (与某人搭讪):
to get to know someone and talk to him or her in a romantic way

give me a break (你饶了我吧! 注:开玩笑的话):
stop annoying me (in this case, teasing Alice about Dr Laver)


本单元的语言点是英语单词中不发音字母,英语里有很多不发音的字母。这是因为,尽管一些单词的发音在过去两、三百年里发生了变化,但其拼写却是相同的。这些不发音的字母没有很多一成不变的规则可循,但得知道,当某些字母与另一些字母组合的时候,一些字母就不发音。下面列出的是一些最常见的不发音的字母


Silent letters 不发音的字母

There are a lot of silent letters in English. This is because although the pronunciation of some words has changed over the last two or three hundred years the spelling has stayed the same. (英语里有很多不发音的字母。这是因为,尽管一些单词的发音在过去两、三百年里发生了变化,但其拼写却是相同的。)
There aren't many hard and fast rules, it's more a matter of learning which letters are silent in certain combinations of letters. Here are some of the most common silent letters. (这些不发音的字母没有很多一成不变的规则可循,但得知道,当某些字母与另一些字母组合的时候,一些字母就不发音。下面列出的是一些最常见的不发音的字 母。)

In the following examples, all silent letters are given in brackets.

不发音的 'b'
The 'b' is silent in the combination 'mb' at the end of a word. For example:rstiimagealt


The 'b' is silent in the combination 'bt'. For example: rstiimagealt


but not in some words, e.g. obtain, unobtrusive


不发音的 'd' 
 
The 'd' is silent in the combination 'dg'. For example: 
 
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不发音的'k'


The 'k' is silent in the combination 'kn'. For example:


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不发音的'n'


The 'n' is silent in the combination 'mn' at the end of a word. For example:


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不发音的 'p'


The 'p' is silent in the combination 'ps' at the beginning of a word. For example:


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不发音的 'h'


The 'h' is silent at the end of word when it follows a vowel 4. For example:


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The 'h' is silent between two vowels 5. For example:rstiimagealt


The 'h' is silent after the letter 'r'. For example:   rstiimagealt 


The 'h' is silent after the letters 'ex' For example:rstiimagealt


but not in some words, e.g. exhale, exhume



1 cocktails
n.鸡尾酒( cocktail的名词复数 );餐前开胃菜;混合物
  • Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks. 请四点钟左右来,我们喝鸡尾酒,吃烤牛排。 来自辞典例句
  • Cocktails were a nasty American habit. 喝鸡尾酒是讨厌的美国习惯。 来自辞典例句
2 salmon
n.鲑,大马哈鱼,橙红色的
  • We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
  • Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗?
3 physically
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
4 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。
5 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
学英语单词
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a tall drink of water
accelerate(d)
active comet
Alpine type of folding
amurskaya oblast
art of building
awow
bacillaemia
baggage shelves
bedder
bezoar of horse
Bill Daley
blanket pump
break-even graph
Briggsian
Bulbophyllum crassipes
Cambremer
cell of corti
collateral giver
communicating state
control configuration
convulive pulse
coreid bugs
corneal
cosine pulse
Croker I.
crossdisciplinary
cymatium parthenopeum
datives
debye(d)
dentoliva
differential equation
estate by the entirety
Europeanized
fibre finish
frumenty
Gibbs energy function
Glaslough
Gnetum hainanense
Gobēsa
Goodness gracious me !
Gulf of Ob
Haba, Alois
hensens
hitbox
hunans
Jazi
Jominian
Journal of Reproduction and Fertility
kalapooias
lead-alloy-sheathed cable
lifo(last in-first out)
lighting-off
linuron
localization of space
low tension circuit
Lydiate
machining test
main fold
menurid
metrial glands'
motivest
mounted plate
Nizhnyaya Palomitsa
North-South trade
pair formations
paraldehyde enema
phase shifter package
Physcione-monoglucoside
Pilimelia
Pistia L.
plane of substrate
political preparation
psychoanalytic school
room calorimeter
rotary crossed axis shaving
scholar's
schutzs
second grouting
serial data set
sewerage system overflow
shaber
solid state time relay
spiral-flow aeration
stagrant market
standing instruction
stay plate
stewed fruit
suborder Ruminantia
thea biflora hay.
three-dimensional copying milling machine
threephase current transformer
transmitting bank
trapped electromagnetic wave
Udmurt Republic
understitches
uranites
use of heavier rails
Vermigal
volume of receipts
wine coaster