Silent P Words | Learn English Pronunciation Rules

Hi. This is Bill. And I'm here to help you with some pronunciation. 

你好。这是比尔。我来这里是为了帮助你一些发音。

Okay. Sometimes in English, we have  

好的。有时在英语中，我们会遇到

words that have letters we don't pronounce. We call them silent letters. 

一些带有不发音字母的单词。我们称它们为无声字母。

And, well, right here, I'm going to tell you  about how the letter P can sometimes be silent. 

好吧，就在这里，我要告诉你字母 P 有时会不发音。

Now, this happens when the word begins with  the letter P but then it is followed by another  

现在，当单词以字母 P 开头但后面跟着另一个

consonant. Now, this is when we ignore the letter  P and we do not actually pronounce that letter. 

辅音时，就会发生这种情况。现在，这是我们忽略字母 P 并且实际上不发音该字母的时候。

It is only silent. So let's look right here. 

它只是沉默。那么让我们看看这里。

What I have in this word ,PN begins the  word, but I'm not going to say ‘pu-neumonia’. 

我在这个词中的内容是 PN 开头的，但我不会说“pu-neumonia”。

Okay. The P is silent. 

好的。 P沉默了。

So all I'm going to say is ‘pneumonia’. Okay. 

所以我只想说“肺炎”。好的。

And ‘pneumonia’ is a sickness  that you get in your lungs. 

“肺炎”是一种发生在肺部的疾病。

That you know … when you're  breathing, you can get sick. 

你知道……当你呼吸时，你可能会生病。

It's more common in the wintertime. And it's kind of serious. 

这种情况在冬季更为常见。这有点严重。

So if you do have pneumonia, I hope you're  seeing a doctor, getting help for that. 

因此，如果您确实患有肺炎，我希望您去看医生并寻求帮助。

But please, the help I can give  you is don't say, “pu-neumonia.” 

但是请不要说“pu-neumonia”，我能给你的帮助是。

Just say, “pneumonia” And remember it's a lung sickness. 

只需说“肺炎”并记住这是一种肺部疾病。

When you're breathing, it's  kind of like all right here. 

当你呼吸的时候，就好像这里一切都很好。

Okay. Now, the next one here. 

好的。现在，下一篇在这里。

It's not ‘P-salm’. All right. 

这不是“P-salm”。好的。

Now, this, we just say ‘psalm’. Now, ‘psalm’ is, it's a part of the Bible. 

现在，我们只说“诗篇”。现在，“诗篇”是圣经的一部分。

If you read the Bible, if you go to church, 

如果你读圣经，如果你去教堂，

there's a part of the Bible  that's known as the Psalms. 

圣经中有一部分被称为诗篇。

Like Psalm 1 Psalm 2 and it's just  you know information from the Bible  

就像诗篇 1 和诗篇 2 一样，你只是从圣经中知道信息

and things like that. If you go to church,  

以及类似的事情。如果你去教堂，

you probably talk about that sort of thing. But what we'll talk about right now is that  

你可能会谈论这类事情。但我们现在要讨论的是

you should pronounce it ‘psalm’. Remember, we have a silent ‘p’,  

你应该将其发音为“诗篇”。请记住，我们有一个不发音的“p”，

so just pronounce the ‘s’. Now, actually for the rest of these,  

所以只需发音“s”即可。现在，实际上对于其余的这些，

you notice PS is getting very common. Because as you look at the next one here,  

您会发现 PS 变得非常普遍。因为当你看这里的下一个

‘psychology’. Okay. 

“心理学”时。好的。

Now, ‘psychology’ is a subject that maybe  you or someone you know studies in school. 

现在，“心理学”可能是您或您认识的人在学校学习的一门学科。

‘psychology’ is all about how people think. It's like the way the mind works. 

“心理学”是关于人们如何思考的。这就像头脑的运作方式。

Like why we think the way we do. That's the study of psychology. 

就像我们为什么会这样思考一样。这就是心理学的研究。

Again, not ‘p-sychology’, just ‘psychology’. So then, down here on the next one, 

再说一次，不是“p-心理学”，只是“心理学”。那么，在下一个，

similar to ‘psychology’, we have ‘psychiatrist’. Now, ‘psychiatrist’ is a doctor who is an expert  

类似于“心理学”，我们有“精神病学家”。现在，“精神科医生”是一位

of ‘psychology’. Okay. 

“心理学”专家的医生。好的。

They've studied psychology all through university. They know psychology. 

他们整个大学都在学习心理学。他们懂心理学。

They help people who want to talk to  someone about how they're thinking. 

他们帮助那些想要与某人谈论他们的想法的人。

You know, they want to see  a doctor about their mind, 

你知道，他们想去看医生了解他们的想法，

they see the psychiatrist. And he helps them with  

他们去看精神科医生。他帮助他们解决

emotional problems or things like that. But, yes, so a psychiatrist studied psychology. 

情感问题或类似的问题。但是，是的，所以精神科医生研究了心理学。

Now, also similar, we have the ‘psychic’. Now, ‘psychic’ doesn't study psychology. 

现在，也类似，我们有“通灵”。现在，“通灵”并不研究心理学。

The psychic is more of a fortune-teller. If you're curious, or you want to get  

通灵者更像是一个算命师。如果你很好奇，或者你想了解

an idea about the future, you might visit a psychic. 

未来，你可以拜访一位通灵者。

And maybe they check your  hand or they look at cards, 

也许他们会检查你的手牌或看牌，

but a psychic tries to tell you about your future, and that's what they do. 

但通灵者试图告诉你你的未来，这就是他们所做的。

So, yeah, ‘psychic’ is more of  what we say a ‘fortune-teller’. 

所以，是的，“通灵者”更像是我们所说的“算命先生”。

That's a similar term right there. And then down here at the bottom, 

这是一个类似的术语。然后在底部，

you've probably heard this before is ‘psycho’. Alright this is someone whose mind is a little  

您可能以前听说过这个词是“psycho”。好吧，这是一个脑子有点

broken. Okay. 

坏的人。好的。

Maybe they do bad things because of it. Many many scary movies have a psycho character  

也许他们因此而做坏事。许多恐怖电影

in them who's causing problems for other people. So, yeah, we have that the psycho person. 

中都有一个给其他人带来问题的心理人物。所以，是的，我们有一个精神病人。

It's kind of, maybe even a  little crazy here, but okay. 

这有点，甚至可能有点疯狂，但是没关系。

So as you notice, PS very  common, but don't say the P. 

正如您所注意到的，PS 很常见，但不要说 P。

Alright. So just one more time,  

好吧。所以，再一次，

I'm going to pronounce these for you. So listen up. 

我会为你们发音这些。所以听着。

We start with pneumonia, psalm, psychology,  psychiatrist, psychic, and psycho. 

我们从肺炎、诗篇、心理学、精神病学家、通灵者和精神病学开始。

So alright. If you ever see these words,  

那么好吧。如果您在正在阅读的内容中看到这些单词，

in something you're reading, just remember, there's a silent P, when the word begins with P,  

请记住，当单词以 P 开头

and is followed by a consonant. I hope that helps. 

且后跟辅音时，有一个不发音的 P。 我希望这有帮助。

And I hope you remember it. Have a good day.

我希望你记住它。祝你有美好的一天。