美式英语正音训练第74期:练习5(8)
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：美式英语正音训练
英语课
Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue!
You and I are going to read with our tongues firmly held at the roofs of our mouths.
If you want, hold a clean dime 1 there with the tongue's tip;
the dime will let you know when you have dropped your tongue because it will fall out.
(Do not use candy; it will hold itself there since wet candy is sticky.)
If you prefer, you can read with your tongue between your teeth instead of the standard behind-the-teeth position, and use a small mirror.
Remember that with this technique you can actually see your tongue disappear as you hear your L sounds drop off.
It's going to sound ridiculous, of course, and nobody would ever intentionally 2 sound like this,
but no one will hear you practice.
You don't want to sound like this:
lllllllllll.
Force your tongue to make all the various vowels 3 in spite 4 of its position.
Let's go.
Leave a little for Lola!
1 dime
n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角
- A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
- The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。
2 intentionally
ad.故意地，有意地
- I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
- The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。