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It must have been about two in the morning when I returned home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall, and began climbing towards the bedroom window. I was almost there when a sarcastic voice below said, 'I don't think the windows need cleaning at this time of the night.' I looked down and nearly fell off the ladder when I saw a policeman. I immediately regretted answering in the way I did, but I said, 'I enjoy cleaning windows at night.'
'So do I,' answered the policeman in the same tone. 'Excuse my interrupting you. I hate to interrupt a man when he's busy working, but would you mind coming with me to the station?'
'Well, I'd prefer to stay here,' I said. 'You see. I've forgotten my key.'
'Your what?' he called.
'My key,' I shouted.
Fortunately, the shouting woke up my wife who opened the window just as the policeman had started to climb towards me.
Words & Expressions
*fast asleep=sleeping deeply=sound asleep熟睡的
*sarcastic [sɑr'kæstɪk] 讽刺的
--Those are the same excuses and sarcastic comments made about Good Old Boys in business.
*tone n. 语气，腔调
--in a friendly tone
--don’t take that tone with me(=do not speak to me in that rude or unpleasant way)
Sentences:
文中好玩的句子
I hate to interrupt a man when he's busy working, but would you mind coming with me to the station?
Pronunciations:
*doorbell /$ˈdɔːrbel/ 注意r音要发出来
*ladder /ˈlædər/ 梅花音以及r音
*ask/æsk/ 梅花音嘴巴打开哦 “安”
*prevent /prɪˈvent/---- /e/不要发成梅花音“接e”,另外pr之间不要有schwa sound，p-r连接要读得快些
*regret /rɪˈɡret/
谢谢Blue一直以来的点评：小结如下----
*一般来说，像un-im-in-um这样的否定前缀，都不会重读，重音落在他们之后。Uni可以读的很清楚，也可以连读，比如unimagitive[,ʌnɪ'mædʒɪnətɪv]
*stress是发音的重点，word stress, compound stress, and sentence stress，语调的上扬和下降取决于sentence stress,也叫tonic stress，语调重音
*cinema/sofa/yoga/pasta等词尾非重读的元音是schwa sound----[ə],不要加r音；
*city/party/set up ----/t/出现在两个元音中间，并且t后面的音节不重读，所以t读得有点想d，舌尖上抬点一下齿龈然后迅速落下
*school/all/usually, l在元音后面时=dark l，AAT中练习美音的dark l 两种1.把舌头从齿间伸出；2.在l的后面加个微弱的schwa sound帮助我们加强这个音
*dry river bed像这种三个实词在一起的时候，为了保持节奏感，中间的实词往往读的轻些，即两头重中间轻。如果碰到三个单音节实词，则倾向于三个单词上扬，同时中间有pause, 比如two small bear，two-small-bear中间都有停一下， 这叫做stress timing; SOS这样的缩写，最后一个字母重读；favorite eating varieties,这样的三个实词: adj+n(名词词组)，重音在名词(eating), eating varieties 复合名词重音在第一个名词上(eating)，综上，eating重读.
*plane这个单词，辅音p-l中间容易加一schwa sound--解决的办法是在发p音时，迅速舌头抬起抵住上齿龈去发l音，不要给p留下任何时间
*miracle /ˈmɪrəkəl/一共三个音节，l在结尾不重读时是syllabic consonant, 可独立成一个音节，实际上美音一般在结尾的l前面都会加上一个schwa sound,这样好读。三个音节中，mi有重音，其他两个音节可读的轻一些，有强弱对比才好听尤其当miracle在句尾有tonic stress，mi这个音节应该能听到明显的音高变化
*可以省掉schwa sound的一些单词，比如history, interesting, evening, basically , every, camera, elementary, business, chocolate etc. 这些单词一般都有三个特点：1.省音前的音节数都在两个以上；2.schwa sound不是第一个也不是最后一个音；3.被省掉的含有schwa sound的音节是没有重音的。
*crop, competition 中的o，英美音时候的区别：/krɒp $krɑːp/； /ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃən$ˌkɑːm-/
*of的读音/əv, ə;strongɒv$əv, ə strong$ɑːv/只有在一段话的结尾或者单独发音时才会读成字典里标的音，在句中都弱读成[əv]
*关于连读：每一个完整的意群或语块中各单词之间如有辅元，或元元连续出现时，一般要连读。如，pointed-out；called-an-oarfish；work-in darkness
*fun/done/won/one,在n音后面加上一个schwa sound，可以帮我们找到/n/的正确发音，是舌尖抵齿龈，不是后舌抬起触碰软腭
*policeman, i发的是/i/音，紧音，嘴角向两边咧的微笑音，手放下巴能明显感到下巴的移动。不要发成双元音/ei/（嘴型饱满）
*停顿和断句的规则：遇到标点符号停顿一下；整个主语讲完后停顿一下；连词或者连接副词前停顿一下；介词前停顿一下；that从句或者其他从句前停顿一下
*复合词的重音规则compound word stress, eg.overfished adj/adv+过去分词，前面是次重音，后面才是主重音。
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