American Road Trip: English Pronunciation

Today, we're going on a road trip. In this video we're going to look a little bit at the

今天，我们要去旅行。在这个 视频，我们将会看到一些

American landscape, and of course we will study some English pronunciation. So, 'road

美国风景，当然我们会 学习一些英语发音。

So, 'road trip' begins with the R consonant sound. And one of the benefits to seeing it in profile,

因此，“公路旅行”始于R辅音。 你可以从侧面看到我的发音情况

when I must look forward because I'm driving, is you get to see -- road -- how much the

因为我在开车所以必须向前看， 就像你看到的-ROAD-

lips come away from the face when they round to make that initial R. Road trip. So the

嘴唇变圆时会从脸上移开 进行最初的R. RoadTrip。所以

R opens into the 'oh' as in 'no' diphthong, ro-, which means they must come together again

R像'no' ‘diphthong’一样以'oh'开头， ro-，这意味着他们必须再次聚在一起

for the second half of that diphthong. Ro-, ro-. Now, the D here is a stop consonant.

在双元音的第二部分Ro-， ro-。现在，这里的D是停止辅音。

It's not released before going into the TR consonant cluster. Road trip, trip. So the

在进入TR之前不要松开 辅音簇. Road Trip，Trip. 所以

TR consonant cluster. You may think, that sounds like a CHR to me. Trip, trip. And of

TR辅音簇。您可能会认为听起来像CHR。Trip，Trip。

course there is a technical reason for that, and I have made a video on that, based on

当然，这是有技术原因的， 我根据这个制作了一个视频

the position of the lips and tongue. Road trip. So the next sound is the 'ih' as in

嘴唇和舌头的位置。路 旅行。所以下一个声音是

'sit' vowel, and finally, the P consonant sound. Road trip. On this trip, we passed

“sit”元音，最后是P辅音。Road trip。 在这次旅行中，我们通过了

through several states. Including West Virginia, Maryland, "Maryland welcomes you," and Pennsylvania.

通过几个州。包括西弗吉尼亚州 马里兰州，“马里兰州欢迎您”，宾夕法尼亚州。

We passed lost of beautiful countryside, including many farms.

我们错过了美丽的乡村， 包括许多农场。

However, we did run into one small problem.

但是，我们确实遇到了一个小问题。

-- So Rachel, why is the traffic zooming by and we're stuck here on the highway?

-Rachel，为什么交通堵塞，我们被困在高速公路上吗？

-- Yeah. -- Because we ran out of gas. -- And why did, wait, what happened? -- Because I

-是的-因为我们汽油用光了。 -而且 为什么，等等，发生了什么事？ - 因为我

didn't pay attention. I've never run out of gas before in my life. -- How does that make

没有注意。我从来没有注意过，我从来没用完汽油。

you feel? -- Like an idiot. -- But we're going to get out of this one. -- He's a Triple-A

你感觉怎么样 -像个白痴-但是我们要去 摆脱这一困境。 -他是三A

member. -- Kevin's saving the day for us. -- What?

会员。 -Kevin为我们节省了一天。 - 什么？

Luckily some friends were able to stop and give us some gas.

幸运的是，一些朋友能够 停下来给我们加油。

This allowed us to get back on the road and enjoy one of the best things about road trips:

这使我们得以重新上路， 享受旅途中最好的事情之一：

going to a drive through to get some good, old-fashioned American junk food.

继续开车去获得一些 老式的美国垃圾食品。

-- So I'm enjoying some Arby's fries. And I also ate a delicious Arby's roast beef.

-所以我很喜欢Arby的薯条。 而且我还吃了美味的Arby烤牛肉。

With our stomachs full, we hit the road again. Idiom: to hit the road. To leave, to get going.

肚子饱了，我们又上路了。 俗语：to hit the road 意思是：开始做

Here we are at the gas station.

我们在加油站。

There's no need to make two separate

无需将两个分开

sounds with any kind of lift in between. Gas station, gas station. You can see there's

声音之间有任何提升。加油站 加油站。你可以看到

just one S sound. So, it starts with the G consonant sound, gg, it goes into the 'aa'

只有一个S声音.因此，它始于G 辅音gg，进入“ aa”

as in 'bat' sound: ga-, gas. There's the S sound, just once. It then goes into the T

如“bat”的声音：ga-，gas。有S 声音，只有一次。然后进入T

sound: gas st-, gas sta-, the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong. Gas station. Followed by the sh

声音：gas st-，gas sta-，如“ say”中的“ ay” Gas station。跟着是sh辅音，

consonant sound, the schwa, and the N sound. Gas station, gas station.

schwa和N声音。 加油站，加油站。

-- Rachel, what are you doing right now? -- I'm filling up.

-Rachel，你现在在做什么？ -我正在加油。

-- Filling up, what does that mean? -- I'm putting gas in the car.

-填满是什么意思？ -我在车里加油。

Fill 'er up. And the reason why I'm doing that is so I don't run out of gas when I'm on the highway.

加油。我这样做的原因是 因此在高速公路上时，我不会用完汽油。

-- We don't want that to happen. -- We don't.

-我们不希望这种情况发生。 -我们没有。

Fill 'er up [x4]

加满[x4]

-- Alright, I need money for the toll. -- Almost home.

-好吧，我需要钱来付通行费。 - 快到家了。

-- Hi. -- How ya doing? -- Good, how are you? -- Fine. $1.60. -- $1.60. Thanks, have a good day.

嗨 - 你怎么样？ - 我很好，你呢？ 很好$ 1.60。 -1.60美元。谢谢，祝你有美好的一天。

I wonder how he's going to feel about being on Rachel's English.

我不知道他会对自己有什么感觉 在瑞秋的英语。

Hey, there's a beautiful shot of the Empire State building.

嘿，有一个帝国大厦的美丽的镜头