美式英语正音训练第50期:神奇的技巧

 　　The Miracle¹ Technique

　　Regaining² Long-Lost Listening Skills

　　The 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 preconceptions and, unfortunately, misconceptions about the sound of English.

　　A Child Can Learn Any Language

　　Every 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; and 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 sound 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.

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 regaining   

复得( regain的现在分词 )； 赢回； 重回； 复至某地

参考例句：

• She was regaining consciousness now, but the fear was coming with her. 现在她正在恢发她的知觉，但是恐怖也就伴随着来了。
• She said briefly, regaining her will with a click. 她干脆地答道，又马上重新振作起精神来。