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　　Well hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. In today's lesson, we're gonna have a little bit of fun.

　　大家好，我是 Emma，欢迎来到美味英语频道、今天的课程我们肯定会玩得很开心的。

　　We are going to perfect your pronunciation of over fifty English words with silent letters in them. Silent letters are pains, aren't they?

　　我们将提高你50多个英语单词的发音，这些单词里面有不发音的字母。不发音的字母可太难了，对吧？

　　A few weeks ago I shared a lesson of over a hundred words, all with silent consonant letters in them but today we're going to focus on silent vowel letters. Now I'm not going to lie, English vowels and vowel sounds are definitely tricky.

　　几周前，我分享了一节一百多个单词的课程，所有单词中都带有不发音的辅音字母，但今天我们将重点关注不发音的元音字母。我不会说谎的，英语的元音和元音发音确实不简单。

　　We have five vowel letters A, E, I, O and U and the letter Y, the consonant Y, can sometimes represent a vowel sound too but we've got many more vowel sounds in English right? And of course, the same letter can represent different sounds.

　　我们有五个元音字母A，E，I，O和U，而字母Y，也就是辅音Y，有时也可以表示元音，但是英语中还有更多的元音发音，对吧？当然，相同的字母可以表示不同的发音。

　　Often you see vowel letters together in words even though it only makes one sound. It's very confusing and as you'll see today sometimes vowel letters can be completely silent as well.

　　你经常会在单词中同时看到多个元音字母，尽管它只发一个音。这非常令人困惑，正如你今天将看到的，有时元音字母也可以是完全不发言的。

　　So please, please get ready to practise out loud with me, it will do you absolutely no good watching. You need to get your tongue and your mouth comfortable with the sounds that we're making today and familiar with what you see on screen.

　　所以，请准备好和我一起大声练习，只是看一看绝对是没有什么用的。你需要让舌头和嘴巴适应我们今天要发的音，也熟悉你在屏幕上看到的内容。

　　Something that you may not know about me is that February is my favourite month of the whole year. I love February because I was born in February so I get to celebrate my birthday in February and by the way thank you to all of you who sent lovely birthday wishes from all around the world this year.

　　你可能不了解我的一件事是2月是我全年最喜欢的月份。我超爱2月，因为我出生于2月份，所以我要在2月庆祝我的生日，顺便我要感谢一下所有的从世界各地给我送来超棒的生日祝福的人。

　　You absolutely made my day. February is also home to Valentine's Day which has just passed us by.

　　你们让我非常开心。2月份也是刚刚结束的情人节之月。

　　If you do celebrate Valentine's Day, I hope that you received something special from someone who loves or admires you this year or at least had some excuse and reason to eat chocolate and drink wine.

　　And if you don't celebrate, well that's okay because the February love continues through our beautiful friends at Lingoda who are kindly offering anyone who watches mmmEnglish a twenty per cent discount on their monthly subscriptions and marathon courses.

　　如果你庆祝情人节的话，我希望你今年有从爱你的人那里收到特别的礼物，或者至少有一些借口和理由吃点巧克力，喝点葡萄酒。如果不庆祝的话，那也没什么问题，因为二月的爱还在我们的好朋友 Lingoda 这里延续，他们为观看 mmmEnglish 的所有人提供每月订阅和马拉松课程20％的折扣。

　　Thanks guys! That's so nice!

　　谢谢你们！那太好了！

　　As you know, Lingoda is an online language school offering classes in English, business English, Spanish, French and German and all their classes run twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. They have a really well-structured curriculum to help you get certified and to reach your language goals fast.

　　如你所知，Lingoda 是一所在线语言学校，提供英语、商务英语、西班牙语、法语和德语的课程，所有课程每周7天每天24小时都有。他们的课程结构非常合理，可帮助你获得认证，并快速达到你的语言目标。

　　And of course, you can do it all from the comfort of your own home which makes Lingoda one hundred per cent pyjama friendly. You've got to love that part too, right?

　　当然，你完全可以在自己舒适的家中中完成所有课程，所以 Lingoda 是完全睡衣友好的。你肯定喜欢这样，对吧？

　　So this special twenty per cent discount offer is available only until the 1st of March so if you're keen to get involved, I'll put the link down in the description below and if you use this code at the checkout, you can share the love too. Thank you!

　　只有在3月1日之前，才能享受20％的特价优惠，所以如果你很想参与的话，我将把链接放在下方的描述区，如果你在付款时使用这个兑换码的话，你就也可以分享这份爱了。谢谢你！

　　Let's start with the letter A. Of course, we start with the letter A, we always do, don't we?

　　让我们从字母A开始。当然了，我们总是以字母A开头，不是吗？

　　Basically, we'd like bread to be rolled down the aisle. Despite the fact that that was a ridiculous sentence there are three examples of a silent letter A in that sentence.

　　总的来说，我们希望面包沿着过道滚下来。尽管这是一个很荒谬的句子，但这个句子中有三个不发音的字母A的例子。

　　Can you see them? Basically, we'd like bread to be rolled down the aisle.

　　你能发现吗？总的来说，我们希望面包沿着过道滚下来。

　　Basically. Bread. Aisle. There are lots of times like in the word bread and aisle where A doesn't really need to be there at all because it doesn't affect the sound that we make.

　　基本上。面包。走道。在很多情况下，像面包和过道这种词根本不需要字母 A，因为它不会影响我们的发音。

　　Bread may as well be written as /bred/, right, and aisle may as well be /ail/. Aesthetic doesn't need that A either. Aesthetic.

　　面包也可以写为/bred/，过道也可以写为/ail/。Asthetic 也不需要一个 A。审美的。

　　The thing is, there's no real way of knowing until you hear that word spoken out loud or perhaps you check the phonemic script in any good dictionary. If you've watched this lesson up here about English vowel sound pronunciation then you'll be able to recognise exactly which English sounds are being shown here.

　　关键是，只有在听到别人大声说出这个单词，或者查看词典里面的音标的时候，才会知道这件事情。如果你观看了这节有关英语元音发音的课程，那么你将能够准确知道我们要看的是哪些英语发音。

　　Then you can feel certain that you're correct in your pronunciation, that bread is pronounced bread and not braid or breed or bre-ad. There is one silent A that you can definitely rely on and that is words that end in -ically, of which there are many just like basically.

　　然后你就可以确定自己的发音是正确的，面包的发音是/bred/，而不是 braid，breed 或bre-ad。你可以确定的是，以-ically结尾的单词的A是不发音的，有很多类似的单词，比如说 basically。

　　The A is always silent in those endings so when it's spoken naturally it sounds like /ikli/ rather than /ikali/. Listen.

　　A在这些结尾中总是保持不发音的，因此当它自然地说出来时，听起来像/ikli/，而不是/ikali/。好好听。

　　You've got basically, logically, politically, automatically, specifically. Now I want you to try a few with me okay.

　　基本上，逻辑上，政治上，自动地，特别地，现在我想让你和我一起尝试一下。

　　Musically, frantically, chaotically. You got it?

　　从音乐上来说，疯狂地，混乱地。念对了吗？

　　Fabulous! Now the letter E is an interesting one.

　　太棒了！字母E是非常有趣的。

　　It's definitely the most common silent vowel letter in English and there are some useful not rules but let's say guidelines to help you pronounce words with silent E's in them correctly. The letter E is usually silent when it's at the end of a word and one of the key exceptions there is if the E is the only vowel sound in the word so for example he she we be me.

　　这绝对是英语中最常见的不发音元音字母，我这里有一些有用的，可能算不上规则，但可以说是一些指导原则，可以帮助你正确地发出里面有不发音字母 E 的单词。字母E通常在单词结尾时是不发音的，这里有一个很重要的例外，如果E是单词中唯一的元音，比如说他、她、我们、是、我。

　　Right? If it's the only vowel sound, it's the only syllable we need to pronounce it. The rest of the time if you see an E at the end of a word, then we don't pronounce it just like in the word taste.

　　对吧？如果它是唯一的元音的话，那我们就需要把它给发出来。其余的时候，如果你在单词的末尾看到E，那我们就不会把它给发出来，比如说在品尝这个词中。

　　You can see that there are two vowel letters in this word right? Here and here.

　　你可以看到这个单词中有两个元音字母，对吗？这里。

　　Taste. Clue.

　　品尝。线索。

　　Bake. Imagine.

　　烘焙。想象。

　　All of those words have a silent E at the end. We don't hear it.

　　所有这些词的末尾都有一个不发音的E。我们没有听到它。

　　But it is not completely pointless. That silent E does often change the vowel sound that comes before it.

　　但这并不是完全没有意义的。不发音的E会改变它前面的元音发音。

　　And I've got a few examples to help you think about this a little. So if we look at the word hop, as soon as we add that E to the end, it becomes hope.

　　我有一些例子可以帮助你对此进行一些思考。让我们看看跳跃这个词，如果将E加到末尾，就立即成为希望。

　　So that vowel sound extends outwards, hop, hope. The same with hid, we add that E, it becomes hide.

　　这样，元音进行延伸了，跳动，希望。Hid 也是一样的，加上一个 E，就变成了 hide。

　　And sit becomes site. So that E, although we don't hear it specifically, it does impact the sound that comes before it.

　　Sit 变成了 site。因此，尽管我们听不到E的发音，但它确实会影响到它前面的发音。

　　I've got a few more words with silent E's to practise with you. Are you ready?

　　我还有一些词汇和大家一起练习不发音的 E。准备好了吗？

　　Try vegetable. So can you see where that silent E is?

　　试一下蔬菜。那么你能看到那个不发音的E在哪里吗？

　　You don't hear me say veg-etable, just vegetable. Try clothes.

　　你听到我说的不是veg-etable，而是蔬菜。试一下衣服。

　　This is definitely a tricky one to pronounce but we don't want to hear clo-thes, clo-thes is incorrect. We only want to hear clothes.

　　这绝对是一个很难的发音，但是我们不想听到clo-thes，clo-thes是不对的。我们听到的是 clothes。

　　Bridge. So it's not bridgey or bridge.

　　桥梁。不是 bridgey 或 bridge。

　　Bridge. Bridge. Just one syllable. And plaque or plaque depending on which native English speaker you're talking to.

　　桥梁。只有一个音节。还有匾牌，具体怎么发音取决于你正在与什么英语母语者交谈。

　　I say plaque but it's definitely not pla-que or plaque. Of course, and the silent E in -ed endings in English.

　　我说的是匾牌，但绝对不是pla-que 或 plaque。当然，英语中以-ed结尾的不发音的E。

　　The letter E can often be silent when it's a regular past tense verb. All of those verbs end in -ed right?

　　如果是规则动词过去时的话，E 一般是不发音的。所有这些动词都以-ed结尾，对吧？

　　In words like fazed, sighed, played, baked, asked, wrapped. In all of those examples, that last E is silent.

　　在发呆，叹气，玩耍，烤，问，裹这种词里面。在所有这些例子中，最后一个E都是不发音的。

　　We don't hear it. And I know that this can be tricky for some of you, my Spanish and my Portuguese learners in particular but luckily for you, I have a whole lesson dedicated to pronouncing past tense regular verbs correctly.

　　我们没有听到它。我知道这对于你们中的某些人，尤其是我的西班牙语和葡萄牙语学生来说可能是有些困难，但幸运的是，我出过一节课专门解决规则动词的过去时发言。

　　It's right up here if you want to head to it. I'll also link to it at the end of this lesson.

　　如果你想去看的话，就在这里。我也把链接放到课程的最后了。

　　Now the letter I is not usually silent but there are a few common English words where it is in words like fruit, suit, juice, cruise. In all of these words, we don't pronounce that I sound so it's not fru-it or su-it or ju-ice or cru-ise.

　　字母 I 一般都是发音的，但是有一些常见的英语单词，例如水果，西服，果汁，邮轮。在所有这些词中，我们都不会把 I 音给发出来，所以不是fru-it，su-it，ju-ice 或 cru-ise。

　　Okay we just use that /u: / vowel sound. Fruit.

　　好的，我们只用/u:/这个音。水果。

　　Suit. Juice.

　　西服。果汁。

　　Cruise. Now the word parliament has a silent I as well, parliament.

　　游轮。现在，议会一词也有一个不发音的 I。

　　That unstressed syllable in there. Parliament. And business has a silent I as well.

　　非重读音节。议会。商业一词也有不发音的 I。

　　Business. But what makes that word even more confusing is that there is an E sound in there though it's represented by the letter U.

　　商业。但是，让这个词更加令人困惑的是，里面有一个 E 的音，尽管是用字母 U 表示的。

　　Practise saying it out loud with me. Business.

　　练习跟我大声说出来。商业。

　　All right let's talk about the silent letter O. We see it in words like enough, rough, tough, I mean there are several silent letters in each of those words right.

　　好吧，让我们谈谈不发音的字母O。我们会在足够，粗糙，艰难这些词里面看到它，不过这几个词里面都有不止一个不发音的字幕。

　　The silent G, the silent H but for the vowel sound, just a simple U would suffice, wouldn't it? I want you to practise out loud with me.

　　不发音的G，不发音的H，但对于元音来说，只要一个简单的U就足够了，对吧？我要你大声练习。

　　Enough. Rough.

　　足够的。粗糙的。

　　Tough. Now you've probably heard the word people enough to know just ignore that O, right?

　　坚硬的。你可能听过“人”这个词很多次，以至于会忽略了这个 O，对吧？

　　People. There's also a silent O in leopard and jeopardy.

　　人。豹子和危险两个词中也有一个不发音的O。

　　We usually say that something is in jeopardy when it's in trouble or it's likely to be damaged. It was in that moment he realised his career was in jeopardy.

　　当某个东西遇到麻烦或可能被损坏时，我们会说其处于危险之中。就在那一刻，他意识到自己的职业生涯岌岌可危。

　　Was that a new word for you? Well then, let's see if you can use it in a sentence.

　　这对你来说是个新词吗？那么，让我们看看你是否可以在句子中使用它。

　　I want you to share that sentence down in the comments with me just to double check that you've got that new word, how to use it and the meaning accurate. The security guard and his colleague guessed whose guitar it was.

　　我希望你在评论中与我分享这句话，要仔细检查一下你是否使用了这个新词汇，你是如何使用它的以及含义是否准确。保安人员和他的同事猜测这是谁的吉他。

　　Don't feel guilty if you can't guess this one. You might need to be able to see it before you can guess it.

　　如果你猜不到这一个的话，请不要感到内疚。你可能需要先看一下它，然后才能猜到它。

　　The security guard and his colleague guessed whose guitar it was. It's that letter U and that letter U can be silent in lots of English words, really common ones especially when it's after G.

　　保安人员和他的同事猜测这是谁的吉他。就是字母U，字母U在许多英语单词中可以不发音，这是非常常见的，尤其是当它在G之后时。

　　I want you to try these ones with me. Guess.

　　我要你和我一起尝试一下这些。猜测。

　　Guard. Guide.

　　保卫。指导。

　　Guitar. Guilt.

　　吉他。愧疚。

　　Tongue. Colleague.

　　舌头。同事。

　　Guarantee. Okay listen up because I've got a little bonus pronunciation tip here for you.

　　保证。好好听哦，因为我在这里为大家提供了一些额外的发音小贴士。

　　She plays the guitar beautifully wonderfully carefully. So what do you notice about all of those three words at the end there?

　　她吉他弹得非常优美认真。那么，这三个词的结尾，你有什么注意到吗？

　　Beautifully. Wonderfully.

　　优美地。精彩地。

　　Carefully. I'm not pronouncing that U, am I?

　　认真地。我没有发U的音，对吧？

　　And this is really common for native English speakers to just drop that little vowel syllable out of there. When we're using words, adverbs that are exactly like this that end in -fully, we usually drop that U.

　　对于以英语为母语的人来说，把那个小元音音节省略是很常见的。当我们使用单词时，类似于这样以-fully 结尾的副词，我们通常会不发U的音。

　　Beautifully. Wonderfully.

　　优美地。精彩地。

　　Carefully. Now it's not wrong to pronounce that syllable.

　　认真地。不过把那个音节发出来也没错。

　　It's unstressed anyway but it's definitely more natural and relaxed to drop that extra little syllable out. Forget that U.

　　它是不发音的，但是把那个额外的小音节的音给省掉个更加自然的，发音起来也更加舒服。把那个 U 给忘了吧。

　　All right so now we've been through lots of examples of silent vowel letters in common English words. Now it's time for some practice.

　　好的，现在我们已经学习了许多常见英语单词中的不发音的字母的例子。是时候进行练习了。

　　So I've got some sentences ready and I want you to practise out loud with me okay? He wrapped his mother's present carefully so she couldn't guess what was inside.

　　我已经准备好一些句子，我希望你能和我一起大声练习，好吗？他非常仔细地包好了给妈妈的礼物，以至于她根本无法猜测里面是什么东西。

　　You try it. He wrapped his mother's present carefully so she couldn't guess what was inside.

　　你来试一下。他非常仔细地包好了给妈妈的礼物，以至于她根本无法猜测里面是什么东西。

　　They spilled vegetable juice all over their new clothes. Try it.

　　他们把蔬菜汁洒在新衣服上了。试一下。

　　They spilled vegetable juice all over their new clothes. My colleague hasn't worn a suit since she worked in parliament four years ago.

　　他们把蔬菜汁洒在新衣服上了。自从她四年前在国会工作以来，我的同事就没有穿过西装。

　　Try it. My colleague hasn't worn a suit since she worked in parliament four years ago.

　　试一下。自从她四年前在国会工作以来，我的同事就没有穿西装。

　　They hadn't a clue that he basically tried to claim the cruise as a business trip. Your turn.

　　他们根本不知道，他其实是想把这次旅行当作是商务旅行。到你了。

　　They hadn't a clue that he basically tried to claim the cruise as a business trip. We're guilty because our laws weren't tough enough and now the leopards are in jeopardy.

　　他们根本不知道，他其实是想把这次旅行当作是商务旅行。我们有罪是因为我们的法律还不够严厉，豹子正处于危险之中。

　　Try it. We're guilty because our laws weren't tough enough and now the leopards are in jeopardy.

　　试一下。我们有罪是因为我们的法律还不够严厉，豹子正处于危险之中。

　　Yeah! Nice work! We went through over fifty words with silent vowel letters in it just then.

　　耶！太棒了！我们已经学习了五十多个内含不发音字母的单词了。

　　Not a complete list by any stretch at all but we definitely ticked off lots of the most common ones and this is specifically to help you sound more natural and relaxed as you're speaking in English. Get that pronunciation right.

　　这绝对不是完整的清单，但我们选出的的都是一些最常见的单词，这是专门用来帮助你在说英语时听起来更加自然和轻松。把发音给发对。

　　Now if you enjoyed the lesson, make sure you let me know by hitting the subscribe button, giving the lesson a like. I always love to hear your comments down below.

　　如果你喜欢这节课程的话，一定要点击订阅按钮让我知道哦，给这节课点个赞。我很想在下面看到大家的评论。

　　Make sure you drop one down there and if you happen to miss my lesson on silent consonant letters or maybe you want to go back and you want to review it again now that you've watched this one, you can get that right here and you can also find my past tense verb pronunciation lesson as well just down there.

　　一定要留下自己的评论哦，如果你碰巧错过了我关于不发音辅音字母的课程，或者你想回去看看，想再次复习一下的话，你可以在这里找到， 也可以在这里找到我关于动词过去式的发音课程。

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