标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 4 Track 34

 

Exercise 10-4: Voiced and Unvoiced Endings in the Past Tense CD 4 Track¹ 34 

The following will explain the differences between four expressions that are similar in appearance² but different in both meaning and pronunciation.

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Used to, depending on its position in a sentence, will take either a tense [ū] or a schwa. At the end of a sentence, you need to say, ... more than I used tooo; in the middle of a sentence you can say, He usta live there.

1 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。

2 appearance   

n.出现，露面；容貌

参考例句：

• In appearance, he was a little like his father.他看起来有点像他的父亲。
• She was a young woman of good appearance.她是一位年轻貌美的女子。