标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD3 Track 32

 

Exercise 5-7: Silent Ls        CD3 Track 32 

Once you've found all the L sounds, the good news is that very often you don't even have to pronounce them. Read the following list of words after me.

1.  would  could  should

2.  chalk  talk  walk

3.  calm  palm  psalm

4.  already  alright  almond

5.  although  almost  always

6.  salmon  alms  Albany

7.  folk  caulk  polka

Before reading about Little Lola in the next exercise, I'm going to get off the specific subject of L for the moment to talk about learning¹ in general. Frequently, when you have some difficult task to do, you either avoid it ordo it with dread². I'd like you to take the opposite point of view For this exercise, you're going to completely focus on the thing that's most difficult: leaving your tongue attached to the top of your mouth. And rather than saying, "Oh, here comes an L, I'd better do something with my tongue,"just leave your tongue attached all through the entire paragraph!

Remember our clenched-teeth reading of What Must the Sun Above Wonder About?, in Chapter 3? Well, it's time for usto make weird³ sounds again.

1 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

2 dread   

vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧

参考例句：

• We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
• Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。

3 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。