英语释义

• a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

片语

sound a vowel发母音

short vowel sound短元音

a vowel sound母音

primary vowel sound基本元音

英汉例句

• if everyone in your class – including the teacher – knows the spelling and meaning of a word but is mispronouncing something as simple as a vowel sound it could make you all indecipherable.

  如果你班上的每个人-包括教师-知道单词的读音和意思但是发错了音，象原音这样简单的音，可能使你的英语让人辨认不清。

• say the vowel sound quickly and with your mouth almost closed, but pronounce the consonant sounds in these syllables distinctly.

  在发后缀的音时，元音发音要快，口几乎是全闭着的，但后缀音节中的辅音发音要清晰。

• for example, in many languages the vowel sound 「i」 is associated with smallness—little, tiny, petit, ni?o, and so on—whereas the sound 「a」 or 「o」 is associated with largeness—grand, gross, gordo, etc.

  举例来说，在许多语言中，元音「i」与小相联系，如little，tiny，petit，nino等等——反之，元音「a」，「o」与大有关，如grand，gross，gordo等等。

• vowel to vowel linking when one word ends with a vowel sound and the…

  意思大致如下：两个元音的连读一单词以元音结尾、下一单词以元音开头时，…

• a change that involves the insertion of a consonant or vowel sound to the middle of a word is known as epenthesis.

  在一个词的中间嵌入一个辅音或元音被称为插入音。

• this happens when there「s more than one reduced vowel sound following the stressed syllable.

  在重读音节后面跟着不止一个的弱化音节时会出现这种情况。

• alice: i noticed one vowel sound that some chinese learners find difficult to pronounce. for example, some people read 」like「 as 」lack'.

  刚才我们说了一些中国人最容易出错的一些辅音。下面我们来谈一谈元音。

• other syllables are less stressed or are weak syllables. make the vowel sound short, but pronounce the consonant sounds clearly and distinctly.

  其它音节就少一些重音，或称弱读音节，念的时候时间短一点，但辅音发音一定要清晰。

• whenever a word ending in a consonant sound is followed by a word beginning with a vowel sound, the consonant sound is linked to the vowel sound as if they were part of the same word.

  若以辅音结尾的单词后面跟着以元音开头的单词，这个辅音就和后面的元音连在一起发音，如同这两个音构成了一个单词。

• whenever ra word ending in a consonant sound is followed by a word beginning with a vowel sound, the consonant sound is linked to the vowel sound as if they were part of the same word.

  若以辅音结尾的单词后面跟着以元音开头的单词，这个辅音就和后面的元音连在一起发音，如同这两个音构成了一个单词。 。

• a cardinal vowel is a vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high or low.

  当舌头位于极端的位置，发出的元音就是定位元音，不论位置的前后或高低。

• the schwa is the most frequent vowel sound in english speech.

  在英语中，中元音是最常用的元音。

• the other is that we link words ending with a vowel sound to words beginning with a vowel sound…

  另一种就是我们把元音结尾的单词与元音开头的单词连起来读。

• remember that if a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with a vowel sound they can link together smoothly.

  记住，如果单词以辅音结尾，而其后的单词又是以元音开始，那它们就会很自然地形成连读。