美式英语正音训练第18期:Exercise 1-15 Application of Stress

 　　第一章 练习15：重音的运用 Exercise1-15 Application of Stress

　　Exercise 1 -15: Application of Stress CD 1 Track 23

　　Mark every word or syllable¹ with ' where you think that the sound is stressed.

　　Use the first sentence as your example.

　　Check Answer Key, beginning on page 193.

　　Pause the CD.

　　Listen and re-mark the stressed words with your marker.

　　After you've put in the accent marks where you think they belong, take one of the colored translucent² markers and as I read very slowly, mark the words that I stress.

　　I am going to exaggerate the words far more than you'd normally hear in a normal reading of the paragraph.

　　You can mark either the whole word or just the strong syllable, whichever you prefer, so that you have a bright spot of color for where the stress should fall.

　　Note If you do the exercise only in pencil, your eye and mind will tend to skip over the accent marks.

　　The spots of color, however, will register as "different" and thereby³ encourage your pitch change.

　　This may strike you as unusual, but trust me, it works.

　　Hello, my' name is.

　　I'm taking American Accent Training.

　　There's a lot to learn, but I hope to make it as enjoyable as possible.

　　I should pick up on the American intonation⁴ pattern pretty easily, although the only way to get it is to practice all of the time.

　　I use the up and down, or peaks and valleys, intonation more than I used to.

　　I've been paying attention to pitch, too.

　　It's like walking down a staircase⁵.

　　I've been talking to a lot of Americans lately, and they tell me that I'm easier to understand.

　　Anyway, I could go on and on, but the important thing is to listen well and sound good.

　　Well, what do you think?

　　Do I?

　　Pause the CD and practice reading the paragraph out loud three times on your own.

1 syllable   

n.音节；vt.分音节

参考例句：

• You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。
• The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。

2 translucent   

adj.半透明的；透明的

参考例句：

• The building is roofed entirely with translucent corrugated plastic.这座建筑完全用半透明瓦楞塑料封顶。
• A small difference between them will render the composite translucent.微小的差别,也会使复合材料变成半透明。

3 thereby   

adv.因此，从而

参考例句：

• I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
• He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。

4 intonation   

n.语调，声调；发声

参考例句：

• The teacher checks for pronunciation and intonation.老师在检查发音和语调。
• Questions are spoken with a rising intonation.疑问句是以升调说出来的。

5 staircase   

n.楼梯，楼梯间

参考例句：

• Footsteps on the staircase interrupted his train of thought.楼梯上传来脚步声，打断了他的思路。
• I crossed the staircase landing,and entered the room she indicated.我经过一个楼梯平台，走进她说的那个房间。