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自1920年发后，这首“诗”早已成为美国ESL(非母语英语）课堂普遍学习的课文。如果你已经有一定的英文基础（个人感觉最少4级；6级的话更理想），then this is for you! Enjoy ^^ !! 练习建议：在每个发音相似的词上注上音标，然后自己没事儿多练练。再跟音频上的发音做对比 If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. 日本人民表示鸭梨很大. 一日本学生表示他宁愿做6个月的苦工也不要朗诵6个诗节 看不懂的话不必着急，因为这首诗只是集合了常见的易错发音词汇，而诗文本身没有深层意思！ 【美音】 【英音系的同学们点此进入传送门】 The Chaos （摘自1920 教科书 Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningenby Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. It will keep you, Suzysu:zi], busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword [sɔ:d] and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque plɑ:kand ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven'kləuvn] , oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, [tə:p'sikəri] Typhoid'taifɔid] , measles ['mi:zlz, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica['maikə, war and far; One, anemone,[ə'neməni] Balmoral[bæl'mɔrəl] , Kitchen, lichen['laikən] , laundry, laurel; ['lɔrəl Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation’s OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation (think of Psyche!) Is a paling stout and spikey? Won’t it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It’s a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough, Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!! 注: Only the most famous lines appear in the video, so not all text will match up with