将这首诗的每个单词准确的发音，你的英语水平会突飞
[align=center][align=center][b][size=16pt][font=Times New Roman]English pronunciation test[/font][/size][/b][/align][/align][align=center][align=center][color=blue][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color][/align][/align][size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]While most of you non-native speakers of English speak English quite well, there is always room for improvement( of course, the same could be said for every person for any subject, but that is another matter). To that end, I’d like to offer you a poem. Once you’ve learned to correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.[/font][/size][size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone: Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language…until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.[/font][/size]
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[align=center][align=center][b][size=14pt][font=Times New Roman]English is tough stuff[/font][/size][/b][/align][/align][align=center][align=center][size=12pt][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size][/align][/align][size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Dearest creature in creation, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Study English pronunciation. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]I will teach you in my verse [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]I will keep you, Suzy, busy, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Make your head with heat grow dizzy. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Tear in eye, your dress will tear. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Just compare heart, beard, and heard, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Dies and diet, lord and word, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Sword and sward, retain and Britain. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman](Mind the latter, how it's written.) [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Now I surely will not plague you [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]With such words as plaque and ague. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]But be careful how you speak: [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Cloven, oven, how and low, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Hear me say, devoid of trickery, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Exiles, similes, and reviles; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Scholar, vicar, and cigar, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Solar, mica, war and far; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]One, anemone, Balmoral, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Gertrude, German, wind and mind, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Scene, Melpomene, mankind. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Billet does not rhyme with ballet, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Blood and flood are not like food, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Nor is mould like should and would. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Viscous, viscount, load and broad, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Toward, to forward, to reward. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]And your pronunciation's OK [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]When you correctly say croquet, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Friend and fiend, alive and live. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Ivy, privy, famous; clamour [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]And enamour rhyme with hammer. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Doll and roll and some and home. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Stranger does not rhyme with anger, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Neither does devour with clangour. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]And then singer, ginger, linger, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Query does not rhyme with very, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Nor does fury sound like bury. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Though the differences seem little, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]We say actual but victual. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Refer does not rhyme with deafer. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Mint, pint, senate and sedate; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Dull, bull, and George ate late. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Science, conscience, scientific. [/font][/size]
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[font=Times New Roman][size=12pt]Liberty[/size][size=12pt], library, heave and heaven, [/size][/font]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]We say hallowed, but allowed, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]People, leopard, towed, but vowed. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Mark the differences, moreover, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Between mover, cover, clover; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Chalice, but police and lice; [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Camel, constable, unstable, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Principle, disciple, label. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Petal, panel, and canal, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Senator, spectator, mayor. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Tour, but our and succour, four. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Gas, alas, and Arkansas. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Sea, idea, Korea, area, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Psalm, Maria, but malaria. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Doctrine, turpentine, marine. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Compare alien with Italian, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Dandelion and battalion. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Sally with ally, yea, ye, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Say aver, but ever, fever, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Heron, granary, canary. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Crevice and device and aerie. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Face, but preface, not efface. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Large, but target, gin, give, verging, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Ear, but earn and wear and tear [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Do not rhyme with here but ere. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Seven is right, but so is even, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Is a paling stout and spikey? [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Won't it make you lose your wits, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Writing groats and saying grits? [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]It's a dark abyss or tunnel: [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Islington and Isle of Wight, [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Housewife, verdict and indict. [/font][/size]
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[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Finally, which rhymes with enough -- [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]Hiccough has the sound of cup. [/font][/size]
[size=12pt][font=Times New Roman]My advice is to give up!!! [/font][/size] :bunaifan :bunaifan
真难啊~念经 :bunaifan the same feeling as the 2nd post. 虽然我的英语不好,但我会加油的 楼上加油啊！ [quote]原帖由 [i]哆啦馨[/i] 于 2007-3-19 23:07 发表
:bunaifan the same feeling as the 2nd post. [/quote]
Excuse me，what is “the 2nd post”？
3Q 2nd post...是2楼吧... [quote]原帖由 [i]飘飘浪花[/i] 于 2007-3-20 12:17 发表
2nd post...是2楼吧... [/quote]
smart boy!!! 有心无力啊！！！！ :cold
好恐怖啊 It's enormously difficult to pronounce such a poem fluently.
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