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
a stone's cast
accounting data process
Acytosporidia
alternate motion
analytico-synthetic
annealing operation
Arthur's Pass Nat.Park
asperulate
aspheterism
asturian
atomic energy battery
basquer
Bedoons
behoveful
bell-type accumulator
bidiagonal matrix
biochemical homology
blow out switch
buggered up
caries callosa
catering-ratings
chenchiang
coconut crab
cogizability of money
commission ore
cotton dressing set
cry content to
dictionary storage and retrieval
dispatcher algorithm
divya
Dundgovǐ Aymag
E.S.C.
end tab
endogenous
endogenous modulator
Eocanthocephale
Eritrichium heterocarpum
expected wealth value
faffling
flight control digital computer
forced-recirculation boiler
free silicon
from the face of the earth
garter webbing
gauley
gun deck
helical-knife cutter head
homotypical effect
hypoparathyroidisms
import-export operation
in the pink
indentation hardness test
isonomies
jim crows
kitchen porter
ladder-back chairs
Lansdowne
lbf.
liquidlike
lose one's reckoning of
Lütjensee
macleans
magnetic-core matrix
markievicz
massetric space
mendillo
mice-eyed
murder indictments
neodrymonia (neodrymonia) seriatopunctata
Ngaya
niche sign
open circuit cooling
overdraft credits
paulinho
perception of solidity
phreatic explosion
place of negotiation
powder rooms
radiation feedback
rebound leaf of the spring
reconciliation of surplus
record modification
research and practice
shadow channel
soil pollution monitoring
stannous methide
stretch nylon
take a drag from
taxed article
tfiiss
the clean thing
thermoretractable
tioxymid
tsunami-hit
tuberculosis cutis pruriginosa
tylotiella obliquatus
uncoverings
us patent
vindicatio
virex
vishers
winding positioning machine