美式英语正音训练第26期:Exercise 1-32 Two-Word Stress

 　　第一章 练习32：二字组短语的强调 Exercise 1-32 Two-Word Stress

　　Exercise 1-32:

　　Two-Word Stress

　　Repeat the following pairs.

　　a light bulb, a light bulb.

　　blue pants, ble jeans.

　　a cold fish, a goldfish.

　　a gray hound, a greyhound.

　　an old key, an inn key.

　　a white house, the White House.

　　a nice watch, a wristwatch.

　　a sticky web, a spider web.

　　a clean cup, a coffee cup.

　　a sharp knife, a steak knife.

　　a baby alligator¹, a baby bottle.

　　a shiny tack², thumbtacks.

　　a wire brush, a hairbrush.

　　a new ball, a football.

　　a boy gun, a machine gun.

　　a silk bow, a Band-Aid.

　　a bright star, a firecracker.

　　Mary Jones, a mailbox.

　　Bob Smith, a spray can.

　　foreign affairs, a wineglass.

　　down payment, a footprint.

　　New York, a strawberry.

　　Social Security, a fig³ leaf.

　　City Hall, an ice cream.

1 alligator   

n.短吻鳄(一种鳄鱼)

参考例句：

• She wandered off to play with her toy alligator.她开始玩鳄鱼玩具。
• Alligator skin is five times more costlier than leather.鳄鱼皮比通常的皮革要贵5倍。

2 tack   

n.大头钉；假缝，粗缝

参考例句：

• He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画。
• We are going to tack the map on the wall.我们打算把这张地图钉在墙上。

3 fig   

n.无花果(树)

参考例句：

• The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果，又挑了一个。
• You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。