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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Exercise 1-5: Four Main Reason s for Intonation1 CD 1 Track 12
Depending on the situation, a word may be stressed for any of the following reasons:
New Information Opinion Contrast "Can't"
1. New Information
It sounds like rain.
Rain is the new information. It's the most important word in that sentence and you could replace everything else with duh-duh-duh. Duh-duh-duh rain will still let you get your point across.
V Repeat: Duh-duh-duh rain I It sounds like rain.
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V Make rain very musical and put it on two notes: ray-ayn. Duh-duh-duh ray-ayn / It sounds like ray-ayn.
2. Opinion
It sounds like rain, but I don't think it is.
In this case, intonation makes the mean ing the opposite of what the words say: It looks like a diamond, but I think it's a zircon. It smells like Chanel, but at that pr ice, it's a knock-off. It feels like... It tastes like... These examples all give the impression that you mean the opposite of what your senses tell you.
V Practice the intonation difference be tween new information and opinion:
It sounds like rain. (It's rain.) It sounds like rain, (but it's not.)
3. Contrast
He likes rain, but he hates snow. Like and hate are contrasted and are the stronger words in the sentence.
4. Can't
It can't rain when there're no clouds.
Contractions2 (shouldn't, wouldn't) and negatives (no, not, never) are important words since they totally negate3 the meaning of a sentence, but they are not usually stressed. Can't is the exception4.
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intonation
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n.语调,声调;发声 | |
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contractions
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n.收缩( contraction的名词复数 );缩减;缩略词;(分娩时)子宫收缩 | |
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vt.否定,否认;取消,使无效 | |
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