托福口语：教你用绕口令练习发音

 　　托福口语主要考察考生的表达能力和发音情况，如果有一口正宗的美式发音，即使在语法等方面有小小的瑕疵，也是瑕不掩瑜。

　　I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.

　　我看见埃素吻凯特。我看见埃素，埃素看见我，而凯特也看见我看见埃素。

　　Mr. See owned a saw. And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw¹. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See, which made Soar sore. Had Soar seen See's saw before See sawed Soar's seesaw, See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw. So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw. But it was sad to see Soar so sore just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw!

　　施先生有一把锯，苏雅先生有一坐跷跷板。现在，在苏雅先生看见施先生前，施先生用他的锯锯断了苏雅先生的跷跷板，令苏雅先生悲痛极了。假如苏雅先生在施先生锯断苏雅先生的跷跷板前看见施先生的锯，施先生的锯便不会把苏雅先生的跷跷板锯断。就这样，施先生的锯锯断了苏雅先生的跷跷板。可是，看见苏雅先生单单为了施先生把他的跷跷板锯断了而如此悲痛，实在令人难过!

　　Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork², that is the way you spell New York.刀子和叉子，瓶子和木塞，这是你拼写纽约的方法。

　　Once upon a barren moor³ there dwelt a bear, also a boar. The bear could not bear the boar. The boar thought the bear a bore. At last the bear could bear no more of that boar that bored him on the moor, and so one morn he bored the boar - that boar will bore the bear no more.

　　从前，在一个贫瘠的荒野里住了一只熊和一只公野猪。熊忍不了公野猪，公野猪又觉得熊是一只令人讨厌的东西。最后，那只熊忍不了那只令牠沉闷极了的公野猪，因此，在一个早上，那只熊把公野猪闷透了 - 自此以后，公野猪不再令熊沉闷了。

　　Paul called from the hall that he had slipped on the floor and couldn’t get to the door.

　　保罗从大厅里叫喊说他滑倒在地上，走不到门口。

　　How many boards could the Mongols hoard⁴, if the Mongol hordes⁵ got bored?

　　如果蒙古游牧部落感到厌倦了，蒙古人能囤积多少木板?

　　崩溃型：

　　Once upon a barren moor

　　There dwelt a bear, also a boar,

　　The bear could not bear the boar,

　　The bear thought the bear a bore.

　　At last the bear could bear no more

　　That boar that bored him on the moor.

　　And so one morn he bored the boar

　　That boar will bore no more!

 

1 seesaw   

n.跷跷板

参考例句：

• Prices have gone up and down like a seesaw this year.今年的价格像跷跷板一样时涨时跌。
• The children are playing at seesaw.孩子们在玩跷跷板。

2 cork   

n.软木，软木塞

参考例句：

• We heard the pop of a cork.我们听见瓶塞砰的一声打开。
• Cork is a very buoyant material.软木是极易浮起的材料。

3 moor   

n.荒野，沼泽；vt.(使)停泊；vi.停泊

参考例句：

• I decided to moor near some tourist boats.我决定在一些观光船附近停泊。
• There were hundreds of the old huts on the moor.沼地上有成百上千的古老的石屋。

4 hoard   

n./v.窖藏，贮存，囤积

参考例句：

• They have a hoard of food in the basement.地下室里有他们贮藏的食物。
• How many curios do you hoard in your study?你在你书房里聚藏了多少古玩？

5 hordes   

n.移动着的一大群( horde的名词复数 )；部落

参考例句：

• There are always hordes of tourists here in the summer. 夏天这里总有成群结队的游客。
• Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall. 大群记者在会堂外争抢位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》