标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 strack 10

 

Exercise 3-5: Reading the [ä] Sound    CD strack 10 

A Lät of Läng, Hät Walks in the Garden 

John was not sorry when the boss called off the walks in the garden. Obviously, to him, it was awfully hot, and the walks were far too long. He had not thought that walking would have caught on the way it did, and he fought the policy from the onset¹. At first, he thought he could talk it over at the law office and have it quashed, but a small obstacle* halted that thought. The top lawyers always bought coffee at the shop across the lawn and they didn't want to stop on John's  account. John's problem was not office politics, but office policy. He resolved the problem by bombing the garden.

* lobster² • a small lobster • lobstacle • a small obstacle

* Pause the CD and read A Lät of Läng, Hät Wälks in the Gärden aloud.

1 onset   

n.进攻，袭击，开始，突然开始

参考例句：

• The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
• Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。

2 lobster   

n.龙虾，龙虾肉

参考例句：

• The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
• I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾，但它不适宜于我的健康。