聽懂老外聊生活英語對話 情感 71：你是“剩男”“剩女”嗎？

　　Topic71 你是“剩男”“剩女”嗎?

　　情境導讀

　　Catherine在和Jane抱怨自己找不到合適的另一半，Jane鼓勵她要充滿信心，一定會找到自己的白馬王子。

　　英語情景會話

　　(以下c代表Catherine.J代表Jane)

　　J: Hi, there.What's up?

　　C: I'm surviving.

　　J: I can tell. You look so down. What's the problem?

　　C: Yesterday is a red-letter day for my best friend Sue. Almost all my friends find their Mr. Charming. And I am left alone and bored stiff.

　　J: What a pity! Have you been on a blind date before?

　　C: Yeah. But I think the boys I have met are not my cup of tea.

　　J: You can't expect perfection from a blind date. Besides that, you should go outside of your house. meet with people and have some fun.

　　C: I know. But there are fewer and fewer nice guys of our age left. And I don't want to settle for anyone.

　　J: It's true that the pressure of the single life becomes heavier as one grows older. But you can have a relationship, just by being yourself.

　　英語筆記

　　1.What's 中的/t/與/s/連讀作/ts/。

　　2.I'm surviving在此表示“我還活著”，用于表達自己的狀況不是很好。

　　3.what a pity 連讀為/'w? 't? 'p?t?/。

　　4.blind date 中的blind 的/d/音結尾，而date 為/d/開頭，出現(xiàn)消音現(xiàn)象，讀作/'bla?n 'de?t /。

　　英語語音語調

　　輔音同音的消音現(xiàn)象

　　blind date在口語中并不是讀作/'bla?nd 'de?t /，而是讀作了/'bla?n 'de?t /，那是因為發(fā)生了輔音同音的消音。一個以輔音結尾的詞，如

　　果下一個詞以一個相同的輔音開頭，那么由于這兩個輔音發(fā)音相同，讀音就會重疊，發(fā)生消音現(xiàn)象，只讀第二個

　　輔音。如：

　　Do you want to /'w?n't?/go?

　　你想去嗎?

　　Tom might/t? 'ma?t/go.

　　湯姆可能會去。