时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 As you probably know, people speak English as their first language in the USA and the UK. However, Americans and British people do not sound alike 1!


Both nations have very similar grammar, and the spelling is almost always the same. Some words are written only somewhat 2 differently.
 
For example, in America, they write “color, C-0-L-O-R”, while in the United 3 Kingdom, the spelling is “C-0-L-O-U-R”.
 
Even if there are differences in the written language, the differences in the spoken language are much easier to spot. You are certainly going to be able to hear that there is a difference when they speak.
 
So, can you hear the difference between an American and British accent?
 
If you are curious to test yourself, you can take a look at this interesting video that will show you some of the differences between American and British English!

1 alike
adj.同样的,相像的;adv.一样地;同程度地 
  • The twins are so alike that I can't tell which is which.这对双胞胎一模一样,我分辨不出谁是谁。
  • All stories seemed dreadfully alike,no matter who told them.看来,不管谁讲,故事都是千篇一律的。
2 somewhat
pron.一些,某物;adv.多少,几分
  • The cake we made was somewhat of a failure.我们做的蛋糕不大成功。
  • The two office buildings are somewhat alike in appearance.这两座办公楼在外形上有点相似。
3 united
adj.和谐的;团结的;联合的,统一的
  • The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
  • The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
学英语单词
7m
aft line
age norm
Alpinia uraiensis
amortization of bond discount
anyuyr.
asslickers
barquette
beehacker
Bilolo
bioimpedance
bucking circuit
buoyant box
canavaosuccinic aid
ceramic tube psychrometer
ceratitic
choiseuls
chromial
competition species
comtek
Coopernook
correspondence clerk
counterclockwise polarized wave
coupling arrangement
date of posting
dcor
desolute
drug-addled
duty of fulfillment
ebonite accumulator jar
energy density of radiation
eobiogenesis (pirie 1937)
federal income taxes
Fibraurea recisa
gas gangrene
golden rule of body
granary bread
Haines
have a sting in the tail
Hippanthropy
hippoglossoides platessoidess
hour angle hyperbola
huber heights
in the dumps
incremation
information inequality
inherited error
ion implantation logic
keyboard data ready
killpecker
kissing and making up
koinange
liming stains
market-penetration strategy
median tracheotomy
microprocessor timing
mixture of colours
molecular biology
multisystemic
Mwene-Biji
olympicss
once-weekly
parking point
Pauline
photopen recorder
platyacantha
point of sail
preheat
principal element
private cache
proselytist
quasi-longitudinal wave
ray tube electron
reciprocal linear dispersion
reciprocating weight
regularized
restorator
rhinedema
Ricketsiaceae
riminton
secondary key retrieval
she'arim
slag hearth
solving a triangle
steam accumulators
suspensory ligament of penis
tarsal cyst
time resolution of uncertainty
traffic patrolling
trangenosis
transit line
truff
underhalls
unit emergency power-off
upsurges
valde
variance optimum value
vendor surveillance
waste motion
wire guard
wmds
zero divisor, zero-divisor