聽懂老外聊生活英語對話 社交 45：短信、彩信，無聲的祝福

　　Topic45 短信、彩信，無聲的祝福

　　情境導(dǎo)讀

　　Mary和Cherry在討論現(xiàn)在人們用手機(jī)頻發(fā)短信的現(xiàn)象，很多人用這個(gè)方式互相問候、拜年，Cherry也是“拇指族”的一員。

　　英語情景會(huì)話

　　(以下M代表Mary.C代表Cherry)

　　C: Hi, Mary. happy birthday! Have you received my message?

　　M: Thank you! Yes, I received.Cherry. I think you are one of "clan of the thumbs" now.

　　C: What does it mean?

　　M: That is a newly coined word. It means people send messages with the tip of their fingers, especially thumbs. Now more and more people tent to use short messages.

　　C: Yeah. It's very convenient and I can do it anywhere.

　　M: And now many people use short messages to pay a New Year call. We also can download rings and pictures to the cell phone, and send them to our friends.

　　C: That's multi-media massage. It costs more than text messages.

　　M: But it's more interesting.

　　C: I almost can't live without messages now.

　　M: I can see. You're always busy editing messages.

　　英語筆記

　　1.clan of the thumbs 意思為“拇指一族”。

　　2.of 弱讀，只讀/v/的音。

　　3.這里tent to 中的/d/發(fā)音省略，to 也發(fā)生弱化，讀作/tent?/。

　　4.pay a call 是指“拜訪”;pay a New Year call 意思是“打電話拜年”。

　　5.注意這里的text/tekst/不要和test/test/、tax/tæks/混淆。

　　英語語音語調(diào)

　　of的弱讀(一)

　　口語中，of前面如果是一個(gè)完全阻礙的清輔音時(shí)，如/t/，/p/等.of/?v/中的/?/常會(huì)省去;這時(shí)，如果of后面接的是一個(gè)元音或濁輔音，如/?:/,/ð/,/v/等時(shí)，of便只保留/v/，如：

　　That's my point of /v/ view.

　　這是我的觀點(diǎn)，

　　tip of /v/ their fingers

　　他們的指尖

　　如果后面是個(gè)清輔音時(shí)，如/θ/，/s/，/k/等，of便發(fā)音為/f/，如：

　　I need a cup of /f/ coffee.

　　我要一杯咖啡。