Themorning 英语日常口语 Unit53:The morning after

英语日常口语 Unit53:The morning after  

本单元是关于烧烤野餐后的对话,Michal: Morning everyone. What a great barbeque yesterday! Coffee and biscuits Alice?
Alice: Oh no, I feel dreadful. I was throwing up all night long!
Tim: One too many cocktails?
Alice: No! I hardly touched a drop. One minute I was having a ball ...
Helen: Getting chatted up more like!
Alice: Yeah, I saw a pletely different side to Paul.
Michal: Who?
Alice: Doctor Laver.
All: Oooh!
Alice: Oh don't! Give me a break!
Tim: So, was it the good doctor who made you ill?
Alice: No, it must've been something I ate.
Helen: But we all ate the same things.
Michal: It looked geous, but I didn't have any of the salmon. Did you?
Helen: No.
Tim: No.
Alice: , no!


Vocabulary (词汇):

to throw up （呕吐）:
to be physically sick

to hardly touch a drop （几乎滴酒不沾）:
to not drink much alcohol

to chat up （与某人搭讪）:
to get to know someone and talk to him or her in a romantic way

give me a break （你饶了我吧！ 注：开玩笑的话）:
stop annoying me (in this case, teasing Alice about Dr Laver)
,本单元的语言点是英语单词中不发音字母，英语里有很多不发音的字母。这是因为，尽管一些单词的发音在过去两、三百年里发生了变化，但其拼写却是相同的。这些不发音的字母没有很多一成不变的规则可循，但得知道，当某些字母与另一些字母组合的时候，一些字母就不发音。下面列出的是一些最常见的不发音的字母,Silent letters 不发音的字母

There are a lot of silent letters in English. This is because although the pronunciation of some words has changed over the last o or three hundred years the spelling has stayed the same. （英语里有很多不发音的字母。这是因为，尽管一些单词的发音在过去两、三百年里发生了变化，但其拼写却是相同的。）
There aren't many hard and fast rules, it's more a matter of learning which letters are silent in certain binations of letters. Here are some of the most mon silent letters. （这些不发音的字母没有很多一成不变的规则可循，但得知道，当某些字母与另一些字母组合的时候，一些字母就不发音。下面列出的是一些最常见的不发音的字 母。）

In the following examples, all silent letters are given in brackets.

不发音的 'b'
The 'b' is silent in the bination 'mb' at the end of a word. For example:,The 'b' is silent in the bination 'bt'. For example:,but not in some words, e.g. obtain, unobtrusive,不发音的 'd'

The 'd' is silent in the bination 'dg'. For example:

,不发音的'k',The 'k' is silent in the bination 'kn'. For example:,不发音的'n',The 'n' is silent in the bination 'mn' at the end of a word. For example:,不发音的 'p',The 'p' is silent in the bination 'ps' at the beginning of a word. For example:,不发音的 'h',The 'h' is silent at the end of word when it follows a vowel. For example:,The 'h' is silent beeen o vowels. For example:,The 'h' is silent after the letter 'r'. For example:,The 'h' is silent after the letters 'ex' For example:,but not in some words, e.g. exhale, exhume