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 w
Aconitum leiostachyum
ad hoc program
affixedness
Ahlen
anticyclonic inversion
apeshits
artificial pneumothorax apparatus
autohaploid
Bachelor of Literature
benets
blood calcium determination
blue vulva
boldoglucin
boron injection surge tank
bradysia dissinilis
bureks
Campomorone
Cariboo Road
caste-ridden
chrome base refractory
clear desk
command partnership
constructive placement algorithm
Costalpino
Crista infratemporalis
cyclohexanone-2, 4-dinitrophenylhydrazone
detassel
dexfosfoserine
dinucleotide frequency
discreditability
distance of tray to tray support
drive sprocket pitch
drum type pickler
educational materials
El Kelâa des Mgouna
estimated profit and loss statement
executive veto
feel-ings
financial economics
financially
fitter
five unit code automatic transmitter
function call syntax
gandling speed
gastrokateixia
hardware lock
Hermies
high temperature cable
hydroclasticity
imputative
in agony
Jell-O
juvenimycin
key club
Knebworth House
laplacian integral
large output
lead and cadmium alloy
Lemieux Is.
lettucy
Long Ditton
loss free medium
lunar structure
magazine attachment
maintenance of fertility
Mandelbachtal-Ormesheim
meiotically
menu control
neck-hole
Nectophrynoides
palkis
palpebral dermatolysis
phloem parenchyma cell
photogrammetric automation
Phreak
polymitotic
pomped
Puntius javanicus
quinic
remotely-operated vehicle
resolutionist
rigid suspension
ring wall
rooburgers
setting-up piece
slice off
squirrelfishes
stainless steel net-cover of axial fan
standard cell transfer
still-standing
structural clay product
synthliboramphus wumizusume
tentaculum
the reith lectures
the sponsor
traditional product
tshombes
underperceives
visual voicemail
well-stained
zealful