美语口音训练第二册18

 　　The Miracle¹ Technique              

CD 2 Track² 18Regaining Long-lost Listening SkillsThe trouble with starting accent training after you know a great deal of English is that you know a great deal about English. You have a lot of preconception and, unfortunately, misconceptions about the sound of English.

　　A Child Can Learn Any LanguageEvery sound of every language is within every child. So, what happens with adults? People learn their native language and stop listening for the sounds that they never hear; then they lose the ability to hear those sounds. Later, when you study a foreign language, you learn a lot of spelling rules that take you still further away from the real wound³ of that language-in this case, English. What we are going to do here is teach you to hear again. So many times, you’ve heard what a native speaker said, translated it into your own accent, and repeated it with your accent. Why? Because you  “knew”  how to say it.

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1 miracle   

n.奇迹，令人惊奇的人或事

参考例句：

• The doctors said that his recovery was a miracle. 医生们说他的复原是件奇事。
• It is simply a miracle that rice should grow in such a place.稻子竟能在这样的地方生长，这实在是个奇迹。

2 track   

n.轨道；足迹；痕迹；磁轨；途径；vt.循路而行；追踪；通过；用纤拉；vi.追踪

参考例句：

• The new race track is nearly six miles in extent.这条新跑道将近六英里长。
• The police are on his track.警察在跟踪他。

3 wound   

n.创伤，伤口，伤疤，伤害，痛苦；vt.伤害，损害，使受伤；vi.打伤，伤害；wind的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• There was a gush of blood from the wound.血从伤口流出。
• The nurse gently mopped the blood from the wound.护士轻轻地抹去伤口上的血。